Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
- 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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Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
Catalogue
- Books
Women and children first : international maternal and infant welfare, 1870-1945 / edited by Valerie Fildes, Lara Marks, and Hilary Marland.
Date: 1992- Books
Metropolitan maternity : maternal and infant welfare services in early twentieth century London / Lara V. Marks.
Marks, Lara, 1963-Date: 1996- Books
Infant and perinatal mortality in Scotland : analysis of infant mortality trends in Scotland by age at death, sex of child, cause of death, social class, and geographic region; maternal mortality trends ; stillbirth and perinatal mortality trends; effect of illegitimacy on infant mortality; historical and geographical background of Scotland ; and discussion of Scotland's maternal and child welfare policies.
National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)Date: 1966- Books
Maternal and child welfare manual / by Dennis Geffen and Susan M. Tracy.
Geffen, Dennis H. (Dennis Herbert)Date: 1956- Books
Talks on health / Association of Infant Welfare and Maternity Centres.
Date: 1929