Stories
- Article
The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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Hysteria
Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
- Book extract
The shape of thought
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Sir Ian Heilbron, Director of Laboratories of the Imperial College of Science and Technology Organic Chemistry Deparment
Date: Oct 1948Reference: UGC 198/2/2/6/1Part of: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Archives and manuscripts
The Papers of Rosalind Franklin
Franklin, Rosalind Elsie, 1920-1958, crystallographerDate: 1937-2008Reference: FRKN- Books
Chromosome analysis protocols / edited by John R. Gosden.
Date: [1994], ©1994- Archives and manuscripts
A History of the Journal International Abstracts of Biological Sciences
Date: 1953-1973Reference: GC/266/2Part of: <i>International Abstracts of Biological Sciences</i> and <i>Archives of Oral Biology</i>- Archives and manuscripts
Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Pontecorvo, Guido Pellegrino Arrigo, 1907-1999, geneticistDate: 1917-2007Reference: UGC 198