• Home
   
• Unborn
  1300–1800s
• Development
  1770–1800
• Learning
  1800–1860
• Evolution
  1860–1930
• Remodelling
  1870s–1910
• Standards
  1900–1960s
• Monitoring
  1900–1980s
• Intervention
  1960s–2000s
• Visibility
   

close all Home Unborn (1300–1800s) Introduction Experiencing pregnancy Medical interest Acquiring a soul Debates over generation Monsters Development (1770–1800) Introduction A blind spot in anatomical images Temporalizing pregnancy Collecting embryos Picturing development Learning (1800–1860) Introduction Histories of development Cells and disciplines Visual aids Embryos on show Evolution (1860–1930) Introduction Vivid comparisons Forgery charges Visual culture Rationalizing reproduction Remodelling (1870s–1910) Introduction Anatomy of human embryos Setting standards Publishing in wax and print An embryological empire Standards (1900–1960s) Introduction The Carnegie Department of Embryology From horizons to stages The Boston egg hunt Public embryology Monitoring (1900–1980s) Introduction Seeing the fetal skeleton Making obstetric ultrasound Uses of ultrasound The lonesome space traveller Intervention (1960s–2000s) Introduction Abortion wars The first ‘test-tube baby’ Assisting conception, regulating research Molecular futures in embryo Visibility

© Tatjana Buklijas and Nick Hopwood 2008–2010. Last reviewed 2014.
An online exhibition developed by the University of Cambridge with support from the Wellcome Trust