Like a Virgin by Prasad, Aarathi (recommended reading txt) 📕

William

Paracelsus

paradox of sex

parasites

Ascaris megalocephala

fetus-in-fetu

Ichthyophonus hoferi

malarial

Mycoplasma genitalium

Plasmodium

Wolbachia

parents, single

parthenogenesis

in human beings (article)

penis

PGD (pre-implantation genetic diagnosis)

PGS (pre-implantation genetic screening)

phenylthiourea

PhilipII, King of Macedon

placenta

eating

Plantades, François de

Plato

Poitiers, Diane de

pregnancy

pregnancy hormone (hCG)

premature babies

brains

breathing problems

Charlotte Wyatt

Priore, Giuseppe Del

progesterone

protein

Queen Charlotte’s Hospital

rats

recessive disorders

Red Queen hypothesis

Renaissance

reproduction

advantages of sexual

and cultural values

and female’s age

and male’s age

declining rates

first life forms

future trends

mothers in their fifties

pre-17th century ideas on

post-17th century ideas on

pre-teen pregnancies

recipe for life

spermless

Royal College of Midwives

Ruakura Agriculture Centre

Savage, Caroline

Schenck, Professor Leopold

schizophrenia

semen

sex, problems for women

sharks

Sheffield University

Sherman, Jerome K.

Siebold, Karl Ernst von

Silber, Dr Sherman

Silver-Russell syndrome

Sims, James Marion

skin layers

Smellie, William

Smith, A.D.

Smith, Richard

snakes

Soranus

sperm

artificial

buying

considered parasite

creation of

donors

early research into

freezing/storing

from stem cells

internet sales

imaginary people in

legal regulations

rapid creation of

‘spermatic worms’

spermatozoa

spindle

Spurway, Helen

Spurway, Jack

SRY

SSC (spermatogonial stem cells)

STDs

stem cells

Steptoe, Dr Patrick

stingless wasp

stinkbugs

stress

Sudden Infant Death syndrome

Sunday Pictorial

surrogacy

tanning

Tarnier, Etienne Stéphane

Taylor, Amillia Sonja

Tehran University

teratomas

Testart, Jacques

test-tube babies

testosterone

Thabit ibn Qurra

thalassaemia

The Concert in the Egg

The Eumenides

The Lancet

Tokyo University of Agriculture

totipotency

Tourette’s syndrome

trophoblast

tuberculosis

turkeys

Turner’s syndrome

University College London

UCLA Medical Center

Universe

University of

Arkansas Medical Center

Bologna

California

Cambridge

Huddersfield

Utah

US Census Bureau

Venter, Dr Craig

Venus of Hohle fels

Verkuyl, Douwe

Villareal, Luis

Vinci, Leonardo da

Victorian Era Exhibition

viral DNA

viruses

virgin births

asexual species, survival of

first mammal

Virginia Aquarium

VVF (vesico-vaginal fistulae)

Waldeyer-Hartz, Heinrich von

Washington Post

Weismann, August

Wells, H.G.

whiptail lizard

Whiting, Audrey

Winston, Lord Robert

womb

artificial

transplants

women, as living incubators

Women & Infants Hospital

Women’s Protection League of India

World Conservation Union

worms, parasitic

Wyatt, Charlotte

Yale University

Zuk, Marlene

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Aarathi Prasad is a biologist and science writer. She has appeared on TV and radio programmes, including as presenter of Channel 4’s controversial Is It Better to Be Mixed Race? and Brave New World with Stephen Hawking, as well as BBC Radio 4’s The Quest for Virgin Birth, and written for Wired, the Guardian, and many other publications. Previously a cancer genetics researcher at Imperial College London, she subsequently moved out of the lab and into the worlds of science communication and policy, in areas including the passage in the UK Parliament of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008. A single mother, Dr Prasad lives in London.