Wombs with a View

Lawrence D. Longo, MD, is Professor of Physiology and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Loma Linda University, California. Dr. Longo founded the Center for Perinatal Biology, and is a leading figure in the history of reproduction. Lawrence P. Reynolds, PhD, is University Distinguished Professor of Animal Sciences and Director, Center for Nutrition and Pregnancy, North Dakota State University. For more than 35 years, Dr. Reynolds research has focused on improving both fertility and pregnancy outcomes in livestock. These problems have major scientific, socioeconomic, and health implications for humans as well. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Animal Science from 2005 to 2008.

“Lawrence D. Longo and Lawrence P. Reynolds’s volume provides a compelling and compendious archive of illustrations of the gravid uterus with fetus and placenta from the late fifteenth through to the nineteenth century. … The strength of the volume is that it achieves this goal by a judicious selection of illustrations that are beautifully reproduced in rich detail.” (Rory du Plessis, ISIS, Vol. 109 (1), March, 2018)“This title will serve as a helpful resource to students, faculty, and researchers. As one expects in a book from Springer, the illustrations, which serve as the heart of this book, are beautifully printed, and the larger format allows for adequate scale. This is certainly a volume that should be available in any medical library. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and researchers; professionals.” (I. Richman, Choice, Vol. 54 (4), December, 2016)

• Foreword by Kent L. Thornburg, PhD.- Preface.- Introduction.- The Fetus in Utero including Twins and the Placenta (Introduction to the Renaissance / Introduction to the Seventeenth Century / Introduction to the Eighteenth Century / Introduction to the Nineteenth Century).- Midwives and Midwifery.- Fertilization and Embryology.- Teratology: Monsters and Prodigies.- Epilogue.- Afterword by Catherine Y. Sprong.- Index.