Rethinking the Public Fetus, Historical Perspectives on the Visual Culture of Pregnancy

Author

Ray; Sara ; Giraud; Anne-Sophie ; Kosmin; Jennifer ; Santesmases; Mar�a Jes�s ; Hopwood; Nick ; Rose Holz; Rose ; R�stvik; Camilla M�rk ; Dandona; Jessica M. ; Parry; Manon S.

Year

2024

Publisher

Boydell & Brewer

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-80543-140-4

Link

Last Update

22-Jan-2026

Keywords

History of Science & Technology ; Health Sciences ; Sociology ; Feminist & Women's Studies ; Film Studies

Description

In the fall of 1776, the German physiologist Caspar Friedrich Wolff wrote to a colleague from the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, saying:

The very rich storehouse of monsters that has been collected and preserved over a long series of years in the Imperial museum has now been handed over to me, so that I can compose a description of them and perform anatomies where I decide to. In this therefore it will be necessary to deal once more with both the origin of monsters as well as with generation in general.¹

Wolff’s “storehouse of monsters” was the...