Scientific advances allow us to understand fertility more completely and help people have children who otherwise wouldn’t have been able to conceive, but we've come a long way. Isabel Davis’ book “Conceiving History: Trying for Pregnancy Past and Present” examines scientific, folkloric, political and societal connections to conception throughout history.
Davis, who leads research teams at the Natural History Museum in London, delivered a lecture on the University of Arkansas campus last week as a guest of the UofA’s Gender Studies and Medieval & Renaissance Studies. She also visited KUAF to discuss her book.
