Stories
- Article
The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
- Article
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.
- Article
Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Merger of the Society for the Study of Reproduction with the Journals of Reproduction and Fertility Limited
Date: 1997 - 2001Reference: SA/SRF/A/A/1Part of: Society for Reproduction and Fertility- Archives and manuscripts
Society for the Study of Fertility
Date: 1950 - 2003Reference: SA/SRF/APart of: Society for Reproduction and Fertility- Books
Policy & principles : general aims / British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology.
British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology.Date: [1914]- Archives and manuscripts
Joint Conference of the UK Fertility Societies, British Andrology Society, British Fertility Society, Society for the Study of Fertility 2000, in Edinburgh, UK
Date: 1998 - 2001Reference: SA/SRF/A/C/5Part of: Society for Reproduction and Fertility- Archives and manuscripts
Transactions of the British Society for the Study of Orthodontics (BSSO)
Date: 1908-1971Reference: SA/BSO/5Part of: British Orthodontic Society (formerly British Society for the Study of Orthodontics)