Research Fellows

Salim Al-Gailani

Research Associate (history of reproductive sciences)

Research interests: History of medicine and the life sciences since 1800; obstetrics and midwifery; public health and welfare; museums and the material culture of science and medicine, especially anatomical collections; histories of pregnancy, embryo and fetus.

My current project on 'birth defects' and maternal-fetal relations in the twentieth century builds on a recently-completed PhD thesis on teratology and the early history of antenatal care in Britain.

I am a research associate on the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award on Generation to Reproduction and a committee member of the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproduction Forum.

Publications

• 'Teratology and the clinic: John William Ballantyne and the making of antenatal life', Wellcome History (42), Winter issue feature article, 2009, pp. 2–4.
• 'Magic, science and masculinity: marketing toy chemistry sets', special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ('On Scientific Instruments') (40), 4, 2009, pp. 372–381.