Stories
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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.
- Book extract
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.
Catalogue
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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- Books
Foetal, infant and early childhood mortality / United Nations Dept. of Social Affairs.
United Nations. Department of Social Affairs.Date: 1954