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The passage of the Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 demonstrates how science has been used to drive policy throughout history. In the case of the…
LawEugenicsReproductionpublic healthGeorge Richard Tiller, a doctor who performed abortions in Wichita, Kansas, was shot to death on 31 May 2009 by Scott Roeder. As the director of one…
AbortionLate-term abortionAbortion servicesFetusAbortion, LegalCharles Benedict Davenport was an early twentieth-century experimental zoologist. Davenport founded both the Station for Experimental Evolution and…
PeopleEugenicsReproductionZoologypublic healthThe book Infant Mortality: Results of a Field Study in Johnstown, PA., Based on Births in One Calendar Year (1915), written by Emma Duke, detailed…
Infants--MortalitySocial WelfareMilkpublic healthRural HealthFlorence Rena Sabin had successful careers as both a researcher and public health reformer. When Johns Hopkins University Medical School opened,…
PeopleBiographypublic healthEducationAnnie Dodge Wauneka, a member of the Navajo Tribal Council in Window Rock, Arizona, from 1951 to 1978, advocated for improved lifestyle, disease…
Presidential Medal of Freedompublic healthChild mortalityAlcoholismPneumoniaMenstrual hygiene management, or MHM, is a concept that concerns girls' and women’s access to the appropriate information and resources to manage…
MenstruationMenstruation--Social aspectsFeminine Hygiene ProductsUNICEFUnited Nations and non-member nations