This year’s Innes Lecture will be given, online, by Professor Nick Hopwood at 19.30 on 22 April

The lecture explores the links between two challenges: producing images of hidden objects and controlling human reproduction.

It shows how gynaecologists, anatomists and artists collected material from miscarrying women, and later from operations, to construct developmental series that ever wider audiences saw in books, exhibitions, magazines and films. It highlights the crucial shift, with in vitro fertilisation and ultrasound, to viewing living embryos and fetuses that could develop into babies.

Nick Hopwood is Professor of History of Science and Medicine in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

For more information and to book visit:

https://www.jic.ac.uk/event/innes-lecture-2021-visible-embryos-a-history-of-human-development/