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Exhibition review
Communications on reproduction: from secrets of women to population arithmetic
  1. Lindsay Edouard
  1. International Advisory Editor, Port Louis, Mauritius; soranae@gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2011-100194

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    Documenting the relationship between reproduction and the media, the exhibition ‘Books and Babies: Communicating Reproduction’, at the Cambridge University Library in Cambridge, UK opened in July 2011. It will run until 23 December 2011, extensive documentation being available at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/Babies.

    Sharing beliefs

    A clay figurine of a woman holding her breasts is thought to have been used around 600 BC in Syria for communicating with the gods to fulfil wishes regarding reproduction. Whereas William Harvey had postulated in 1651 that an egg was the origin of every living organism, it was not until 1827 that von Baer discovered the mammalian egg as documented in a copper engraving.

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    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.