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
How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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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
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HIV in pregnancy : a review.
Date: 1999- Books
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Die Antisepsis bei Schwangeren, Gebärenden und Wöchnerinnen : mit einem Anhange über den Gebrauch von Quecksilberchlorid als Desinfectionsmittel in der Geburtshilfe / von Camillo Fürst.
Fürst, Camillo.Date: 1885- Books
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The significance of the typhoid serum reaction in the offspring of patients suffering from enteric fever / by Charles Bolton.
Bolton, Charles.Date: 1901- Books
Reducing the odds : preventing perinatal transmission of HIV in the United States / Michael A. Stoto, Donna A. Almario, and Marie C. McCormick, editors ; Committee on Perinatal Transmission of HIV, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine, and Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, Institute of Medicine.
Date: 1999- 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