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Generation to Reproduction

 

Jim Secord discusses his GTR project

Jim Secord discusses his work on the history of evolution and Darwin's correspondence.

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Leah Astbury discusses her GTR project

Leah Astbury discusses her work on pregnancy and childbirth in early modern England.

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Martin Johnson discusses his GTR project

Martin Johnson discusses his work on the history of IVF and mammalian embryology.

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Peter Jones discusses his GTR project

Peter Jones discusses his work on medieval medical books and the transfer of knowledge about 'generation'.

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John Forrester discusses his GTR project

John Forrester discusses his work on Robert Stoller and the history of gender identity.

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Professor Sir Robert Edwards (1925–2013)

Martin Johnson remembers the IVF pioneer as 'one of the true giants of the 20th century'.

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Frog pregnancy testing

Jesse Olszynko-Gryn explains why, from the 1930s to the 1960s, pregnancy tests involved the use of live animals.

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Medieval medical reference book

Peter Jones talks about a vade mecum, a valuable resource for learning about medieval interest in generation and reproduction.

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The Sekenesse of Wymmen

Peter Jones examines an illustrated medical text from the 15th century.

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Multimedia embryos

Nick Hopwood explains how wax models of embryos were the original 'supplementary material' in scientific publishing.

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Sexual selections

Jim Secord looks at how the pervasive significance of sex in the Descent of Man created problems for Darwin and his publisher.

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A book of ominous births, 650 BC

Eleanor Robson examines Shumma Izbu, an Assyrian catalogue of strange births and what they portended.

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Main image: 'The Sekenesse of Wymmen', Sloane MS 2463, folio 217r
Image credit: British Library