Stories
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
- 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 search for a cure for endometriosis
Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.
Catalogue
- Books
A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying-in women and the means of curing, but more especially of preventing the principal disorders to which they are liable. Together with some new directions concerning the delivery of the child and placenta. In natural births : illustrated with cases / by Charles White.
White, Charles, 1728-1813.Date: 1773- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1934-1935Reference: WF/M/GB/30/08Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Reprints on general subjects (mostly related to abortion)
Date: 1970-1975Reference: SA/ALR/D.40Part of: Abortion Law Reform Association- Audio
After Ebola.
Date: 2016- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1926-1927Reference: WF/M/GB/30/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd