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Concept

Parturition

Images

  • [Leaflet (8 June 1880) about the conjoined twin girls, Rosalie and Josepha Blazek.  ].
  • Vishnu reclining on the ocean with Brahma springing from a lotus growing from Vishnu's navel with attendants. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Events in Krishna's life. Gouache drawing.
  • M0011650: Earliest known illustration showing Caesarian Section, 1498
  • M0015414: Child birth scene, fragment of marble Greco-Roman bas relief, 1st-4th century A.D.
All images (15)

Catalogue

    • Books

    Birth / edited by Imogen Tyler and Caroline Gatrell ; associate editor: Irene Gedalof.

    | Date: 2009
    • Books

    Awake and aware : participating in childbirth through psychoprophylaxis / Irwin Chabon, M.D ; introduction by Heinz L. Luschinsky, M.D.

    Chabon, Irwin | Date: [1966]
    • Books

    Childbirth without fear : the principles and practice of natural childbirth / by Grantly Dick-Read, M.A., M.D.(Cantab.).

    Dick-Read, Grantly, 1890-1959 | Date: 1958
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0001876: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

    | Date: 22 May 1931 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/17/67
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0007459: Illustration of Japanese parturition chair

    | Date: 6 September 1940 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/64/11
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
All works (461)

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