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Detail of page from the Chronology of Ancient Nations by Al-Biruni. Central image depicts the birth of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor, via a primitive form of Caesarean Section. According to Al-Biruni, he was delivered by this method after his mother died during labour. In the centre of the image, a doctor removes the infant head-first from an incision in Atia Balba's abdomen, while three other figures look on from the side.
Detail of page from the Chronology of Ancient Nations by Al-Biruni. Central image depicts the birth of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor, via a primitive form of Caesarean Section. According to Al-Biruni, he was delivered by this method after his mother died during labour. In the centre of the image, a doctor removes the infant head-first from an incision in Atia Balba's abdomen, while three other figures look on from the side.

Sex Time: Belatedness and the Sexed Body in Medieval Islamic Medicine

Dr. Ahmed Ragab, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
May 1944: 98 girls and young women from the Protestant charity institution Asbacher Hütte (Bad Kreuznach) are readied for deportation to the killing center of Meseritz-Obrawalde. Four decades later, the institution issues the very first "confession of guilt" for failing to protest and protect their residents. Printed in Offene Tür 1 (1985), 5. © Diakonie-Anstalten Bad Kreuznach.
May 1944: 98 girls and young women from the Protestant charity institution Asbacher Hütte (Bad Kreuznach) are readied for deportation to the killing center of Meseritz-Obrawalde. Four decades later, the institution issues the very first "confession of guilt" for failing to protest and protect their residents. Printed in Offene Tür 1 (1985), 5. © Diakonie-Anstalten Bad Kreuznach.

The Question of Unworthy Life: Rethinking Nazism's First Genocide

Dagmar Herzog
City University of New York

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