Stories
- 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.
- Article
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.
- Article
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
- Ephemera
- Online
The two-headed girl : death of the double-headed Girl : duplex child - Rita-Christina.
Date: [1829]- Pictures
- Online
A skeleton of a new born child with deformed hips who died of asphyxia in birth. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
Leopold, G. (Gerhard), 1846-1911.Date: 1908Reference: 17140i- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Notes on autopsies, etc.
Date: 1916-1917Reference: PP/SPI/A.3Part of: Spilsbury, Sir Bernard (1877-1947), Forensic Pathologist- Books
Genetics and the law / edited by Aubrey Milunsky and George J. Annas.
National Symposium on Genetics and the Law (1975 : Boston, Mass.)Date: [1976], ©1976- Archives and manuscripts
Papers and articles by others
Date: 1933-1993Reference: PP/FOR/H.4Part of: Michael Fordham