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Fraught fertility and making royal babies
Producing a male heir has been seen for centuries as a queen’s most important role. Here Estelle Paranque explores the lives of four queens whose route to royal motherhood was far from smooth.
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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
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Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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A candid historical account of the Hospital for the reception of exposed and deserted young children; representing The present Plan of it as productive of many Evils, and not adapted to the Genius and Happiness of this Nation. Shewing, on the other hand, The great Importance of the Establishment, if put under proper Regulations, as the most effectual Means of preserving the Lives of a great Number of such Infants as have usually perished within the Bills of Mortality. With a proposal for carrying a new design into execution. To which is added, a letter from a country gentleman to a governor of the Hospital: Containing Many Observations relating to Foundlings born, educated, or employed, in the Country; collected from real Facts: With his Opinion concerning the Amendments necessary.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: [1760]- Books
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On the mortality of infants in foundling institutions, and generally, as influenced by the absence of breast milk / by C.H.F. Routh.
Routh, C. H. F. (Charles Henry Felix), 1822-1909.Date: 1858- Books
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Rules for the general management of infants / recommended by the Obstetrical Society of London.
Obstetrical Society of London.Date: 1885- Books
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Infant mortality / by A. K. Chalmers.
Chalmers, Archibald Kerr.Date: [1906]- Books
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The regulation and control of the manufacture and sale of food and drugs for infants / by Eric Pritchard.
Pritchard, Eric, 1864-1943.Date: 1908