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"The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever” (1843), by Oliver Wendell Holmes
By: Safiya Shaikh
| Published: Jul 26, 2017
In 1843, physician Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote and published The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, an essay about puerperal fever, a disease that…
LiteratureSepsisSepticemiaPuerperal septicemiaInfection, Puerperal
Embryos in Wax (2002), by Nick Hopwood
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 25, 2010
Embryos in Wax: Models from the Ziegler Studio is a history of embryo wax modeling written by science historian Nick Hopwood. Published by the…
LiteraturePublicationsModelsEducationhistory
"Derivation of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Cultured Human Primordial Germ Cells" (1998), by John Gearhart et al.
By: Ke Wu
| Published: Sep 14, 2010
In November 1998, two independent reports were published concerning the first isolation of pluripotent human stem cells, one of which was "Derivation…
LiteratureStem CellsPublications
"Visualizing Human Embryos" (1999), by Bradley Richard Smith
By: Sarah Ly
| Published: Mar 27, 2011
In March 1999 Bradley Richard Smith, a professor at the University of Michigan, unveiled the first digital magnetic resonance images of human embryos…
Magnetic resonance microscopyMagnetic resonance imagingPublicationsMicroscopyModels
Sex in a Cold Climate (1998)
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Aug 12, 2019
In 1998, Testimony Films released the documentary Sex in a Cold Climate, which reported the true stories of four survivors from the Magdalene asylums…
LiteratureCatholicIrelandNunsCatholic women--Abuse of
Images of Embryos in Life Magazine in the 1950s
By: Olivia Conley
| Published: Jun 30, 2010
Embryonic images displayed in Life magazine during the mid-twentieth century serve as a representation of technological advances and the growing…
PublicationsReproductionChicksHuman DevelopmentFetus
The Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology (1984), by Mary Warnock and the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology
By: Jonathon J. LaTourelle
| Published: Oct 02, 2014
The Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology, commonly called the Warnock Report after the chair of the committee…
LiteratureFertilityFertilization in vitro, HumanReproductive technologyEmbryo transplantation
Anatomia Uteri Humani Gravidi Tabulis Illustrata (The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures) (1774), by William Hunter
By: Nevada Wagoner
| Published: Apr 13, 2017
William Hunter’s Anatomia Uteri Humani Gravidi Tabulis Illustrata (The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures), hereafter called The…
LiteratureHuman reproductive technologyHuman reproduction in literatureHuman reproduction--Social aspectsHuman reproduction--Congresses
A History of Embryology (1959), by Joseph Needham
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 28, 2010
In 1931 embryologist and historian Joseph Needham published a well-received three-volume treatise titled Chemical Embryology. The first four chapters…
LiteratureNeedham, Joseph, 1900-1995Publicationshistory
A Child Is Born (1965), by Lennart Nilsson
By: Mark Zhang
| Published: Sep 17, 2013
Dell Publishing in New York City, New York, published Lennart Nilsson's A Child Is Born in 1966. The book was a translation of the Swedish version…
LiteraturedevelopmentPregnancyfetal developmentFetal Growth