Laurence M V Totelin
Laurence M V Totelin
The compilers of the Hippocratic gynaecological treatises often recommend sexual intercourse as part of treatments for women's diseases. In addition, they often prescribe the use of ingredients that are obvious phallic symbols. This paper a...
The farm and the clinic: an inquiry into the making of our biotechnological modernity [0.03%]
农场与诊所——对当下生物技术现代性的考察
Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Chris Polge
Chris Polge
This paper traces the history of the Animal Research Station, Cambridge from its establishment in 1932 to its closure in 1986. The author worked there for forty years and was Director from 1979. Originally set up as a field station for Camb...
Managing cows: an ethnography of breeding practices and uses of reproductive technology in contemporary dairy farming in Lombardy (Italy) [0.03%]
当代伦巴第地区的奶牛养殖业中的伦理学：繁殖实践与生殖技术的应用
Cristina Grasseni
Cristina Grasseni
The aim of this article is to contribute detailed ethnographic material to broaden the scope of what we mean by reproductive technology. Technology can be defined not only by a series of laboratory techniques (such as artificial inseminatio...
The farm as clinic: veterinary expertise and the transformation of dairy farming, 1930-1950 [0.03%]
从农场到诊所：兽医专业知识及其在牛奶业的转型中的作用（1930—1950）
Abigail Woods
Abigail Woods
This paper explores the wartime creation of veterinary expertise in cattle breeding, and its contribution to the transition between two very different types of agriculture. During the interwar period, falling prices and steep competition fr...
Cutting across nature? The history of artificial insemination in pigs in the United Kingdom [0.03%]
跨越自然？英国猪人工授精的历史
Paul Brassley
Paul Brassley
Artificial insemination (AI) has a considerable cultural significance in addition to its economic and technical impact. This study is the first to examine the history of its application to pigs, and uses evidence provided directly by both t...
From 'public service' to artificial insemination: animal breeding science and reproductive research in early twentieth-century Britain [0.03%]
从公共服务到人工授精——20世纪早期英国的动物育种科学与生殖研究
Sarah Wilmot
Sarah Wilmot
Artificial insemination (AI) was the first conceptive technology to be widely used in agriculture. Whereas at the beginning of the twentieth century all cows in England and Wales were mated to bulls, by the end of the 1950s 60% conceived th...
The return of the Inseminator: Eutelegenesis in past and contemporary reproductive ethics [0.03%]
人授手归来——论过去和现在生殖伦理中的产宫出生伦理
John McMillan
John McMillan
Eugenicists in the 1930s and 1940s emphasised our moral responsibilities to future generations and the importance of positively selecting traits that would benefit humanity. In 1935 Herbert Brewer recommended 'Eutelegenesis' (artificial ins...
Great expectations--German debates about artificial insemination in humans around 1912 [0.03%]
期望良多——围绕1912年前后的德国人工授精辩论
Christina Benninghaus
Christina Benninghaus
In May 1912, reports on successful attempts at artificial insemination hit the German papers. Over the following months, the topic was taken up in medical lectures, in the debates of medical associations, and in medical journals. The techni...
'Crook' pipettes: embryonic emigrations from agriculture to reproductive biomedicine [0.03%]
“Crook”移液管：从农业到生殖医学的胚胎迁移
Sarah Franklin
Sarah Franklin
While cloning, stem cells, and regenerative medicine are often imagined in a futurial idiom--as expectations, hype, hope and promises--this article approaches the remaking of genealogy in such contexts from a historical route. Through a ser...