Wellcome History issue 42

Winter 2009

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Feature article

Teratology and the clinic: John William Ballantyne and the making of antenatal life
Salim Al-Gailani

Cambridge Strategic Award

Generation to Reproduction: a Strategic Award for the University of Cambridge
Nick Hopwood

Meanings of birth in ancient Assyria and Babylonia
Eleanor Robson

Fertility, medicine and the divine in the classical world
Rebecca Flemming

The Casebooks Project: Simon Forman and Richard Napier's medical records, 1596-1634
Lauren Kassell

Reproducing generations
Richard Smith and Simon Szreter

Communicating generation
Peter Jones and Jim Secord

Mammalian embryology and assisted reproduction in postwar Britain
Martin Johnson, Sarah Franklin and Nick Hopwood

The psychology of the sexual-reproductive–gender system
John Forrester

Online exhibition

Making Visible Embryos: an online exhibition
Tatjana Buklijas and Nick Hopwood

Research resources

Moving Image and Sound Collection
Christy Henshaw

New publications

Modern Medicine and International Aid: Khunde Hospital, Nepal, 1966-1998
Susan Heydon

Reviews

Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History
Richard Barnett

Fat: A cultural history of obesity
Thea Vidnes

Work in progress

Retreat from empire and the mentally ill: European 'madness' in late colonial Kenya
Will Jackson

Women medical students at Irish universities, c.1872-1922
Laura Kelly

The impact of the Anatomy Act in Ireland
Ina Scherder

Enter the art historians: intersections in the histories of art and medicine
Tania A Woloshyn

Conference announcements

Asian Society for the History of Medicine Fifth Conference
Climate, Environment and Disease: Crossing Historico-geographical Boundaries
7-9 October 2010 in Suwon, South Korea

Scratching the Surface: The history of skin, its diseases and their treatment
29-30 October 2010, University of Birmingham