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Concept

Pregnancy

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  • Foetuses in utero: four figures showing cross-sections of a foetus in various positions in the uterus. Line engraving, 1791, by W. Taylor after F. Birnie, after W. Smellie.
  • Formation of the human foetus: five figures, showing the development from five months to nine months gestation. Colour engraving, by J. Pass after D. Dodd, 1794.
  • The Visitation of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth (?) Engraving by S. Mulinari, 1778.
  • Dissection of a pregnant uterus, showing the foetus at nine months, with the head positioned towards the vagina and the lower part of the placenta under the child's head, detached from the uterus. Copperplate engraving by J. Mitchel after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.
  • A woman lies back on a sofa holding a telephone as a man leans over with thoughts of condoms and lubricant looming in a speech bubble overhead; another woman sits on her knees in the centre exclaiming 'AIDS?' while a couple sit on the end, dreaming of pregnancy; an advertisement for safe sex and AIDS prevention by the Center for Youth Sexual Health and Contraception. Colour lithograph by Eulàlia Sayrach, 1993.
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Catalogue

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    A man caring for his pregnant wife: ante-natal care during pregnancy in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph after T. W. Agerneti (?) by the Health Education Centre, 1997.

    | Date: 1997 | Reference: 754253i
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    Traitde la folie des femmes enceintes : des nouvelles accouchs et des nourrices et considations mico-lales qui se rattachent a ce sujet / par L. V. Marc.

    Marc Louis Victor, 1828-1864. | Date: 1858
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    Dissection showing the pregnant uterus. Coloured line engraving by W.H. Lizars, ca. 1827.

    Lizars, W. H. (William Home), 1788-1859. | Date: [1827?] | Reference: 579940i
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    Test-tube women : what future for motherhood? / edited by Rita Arditti, Renate Duelli Klein, and Shelley Minden.

    | Date: 1984
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    An address on some of the relations of pregnancy to surgery : delivered at the first meeting of the Mirfield and District Medico-Chirurgical Society / by Mayo Robson.

    Robson, A. W. Mayo (Arthur William Mayo), Sir, 1853-1933. | Date: [1896?]
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