Stories
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Belonging, babies and self-belief
As a first-time mother living abroad, it seemed too exhausting to truly connect with new acquaintances. Instead, Tanya Perdikou began to make a kind of peace with herself.
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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.
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The conditional child
Deanna Fei asks what it means to sustain a life, drawing on her own experience of having a premature baby as well as an 18th-century essay.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Neonatal intensive care units", Medical Post, Canada, 12 May 1981
Date: 1981Reference: PP/CDW/J.5/16Part of: Williams, Cicely Delphine (1893-1992)- Archives and manuscripts
Neonatal morbidity and mortality in a specialised neonatal intensive care unit - is there room for prevention through maternal lifestyle modification nd ante-natal intervention?
Health Education CouncilDate: c.1980Reference: SA/HEC/B/34/101Part of: Health Education Council and Health Education Authority- Books
The Lazarus case : life-and-death issues in neonatal intensive care / John D. Lantos.
Lantos, John D.Date: [2001], ©2001- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 9. 'Origins of Neonatal Intensive Care in the UK'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1998-2001Reference: GC/253/A/9Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Archives - Digital
Digital Transcripts
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 12 February 2001Reference: GC/253/A/9/11Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars