The Books and Babies exhibition at Cambridge University Library tells the story of how biology and medicine came to dominate the way we think about reproductionBooks and Babies exhibition - in picturesI'm in a dimly lit basement staring at a dismembered female torso. The legs, or what remains of them, are splayed to reveal the genitalia. Flaps of muscle and fibrous tissue are folded back over the abdomen and, underneath, I can see the curled-up form of an almost fully developed foetus.William Hunter's 18th century Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus may only be an anatomical drawing, but it is a shocking introduction to Cambridge University Library's latest exhibition Books and Babies (part of the Wellcome Trust-supported Generation to Reproduction project).One of the curators, Dr Francis N...

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