1: Introduction
2: Mothers, Midwives, and Mysteries
3: Abortions, Witches, and Catholics: Reproduction and Revolution
4: 'Is not your Lordship with child too?': Pregnant Fathers and Fathers of Science
5: Imagining Mothers
6: Breeding Scottish Obstetrics in Doctor Smellie's London
7: Revolutionary Bodies in the Britain of George III
8: Sex, Science, and Race
9: The State Takes Charge: Conceived, Consummated, and Counted
10: Epilogue

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