The De Partu site is currently undergoing maintenance. You will notice the new background image (from Muscio, courtesy of the Wellcome Library) and new member login with the logo above. I am pleased to report that I have now identified a solution to the member login issue. The new login box (to be found at […]

Full copies of the Midwives Acts of 1902 and 1918 have now been uploaded to the Resources page.

Medical Humanities Sheffield is proud to launch a series of open interdisciplinary lectures, for students, staff and the public. WEDNESDAY 26 February – 6 p.m. Firth Hall Professor Jennifer Richards Reading and Talking about The Woman’s Book in Renaissance England “Most written knowledge about women’s bodies” in late medieval Europe, argues Monica H. Green, “is […]

Times have changed and it is now rare that a man does not attend the birth of his baby, but how did it come to pass and could things ever change back? BBC News article 14/03/13. by Lucy Wallis

Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge *** The Ninth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine *** Thursday 16 January 2014 at 4.30pm The clinic of the birth: obstetric ultrasound, medical innovation and the clinico-anatomical project Malcolm Nicolson (University of Glasgow) Ultrasonic images of the fetus are now ubiquitous. Like […]

I am pleased to announce the following symposium: Regards socio-historiques sur la santé comme problème public : don et transplantation d’organes, cancer, sida, dépendance au jeu et santé mentale [Historical and sociological perspectives on health as a public problem: organ donation, cancer, AIDS, gambling addiction and mental health]. This symposium will be held in French, […]

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to everyone from the Chair and Steering Group of De Partu

The 9th annual Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reproduction at Cambridge will be held on Friday Nov. 15th from 9.00 a.m. – 7.00 p.m. Registrations have unfortunately already closed, but the programme and Twitter coverage may be of interest. Presentations this year range from oocyte preservation, to the emerging meanings of cells, to the role of motherhood. […]

Janette Allotey, Chair of De Partu, was interviewed by Helen Castor for the first programme in the series, which was broadcast on 9th October 2013. It will be available on BBC iPlayer to view or download until October 8th 2013.

De Partu Anuual Lecture May 31st 2013: Professor Valerie Worth, University of Oxford. “Who was present at the birth? Interpreting written and visual sources from early modern France.”

By Helen King (helen.king@open.ac.uk) It was one of those moments that only happens when academics and practitioners are in the same room… For about a year, I had been thinking about the history of visual representations of body parts, and had been introducing audiences in the UK and beyond to some of the knitting patterns […]