Claire Horn

Writer/Researcher, Birkbeck, University of London

Claire Horn is a Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund researcher in law at Birkbeck, University of London.

Written by Claire Horn

An adult hand holding a premature baby’s tiny foot in a hospital incubator, with a medical sensor bandaged to the baby’s foot.

The history of the incubator makes a sideshow of mothering

Mother’s saviour – or her substitute? Power dynamics in the history of the incubator and artificial-womb technology today

by Claire Horn