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Enovid: The First Hormonal Birth Control Pill (1957–1988)
By: Ilani Higgins
| Published: Aug 09, 2025
In 1960, the US-based pharmaceutical lab G.D. Searle and Company, or Searle, launched Enovid, one of the first oral birth control pills, following…
ContraceptionBirth ControlEugenicsClinical trialMedical Ethics
The Idea of Ectogenesis in Daedalus; or Science and The Future (1924), by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
By: Aubrey Pinteric
| Published: Aug 05, 2025
In 1924, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, aka JBS Haldane, published Daedalus; or Science and The Future, hereafter Daedalus, which was a written…
In vitro fertilizationFertilityEctogenesisReproductive technologyClassification--Books--Science fiction
Lewis Madison Terman (1877–1956)
By: Cole Nichols
| Published: Feb 25, 2025
Lewis Madison Terman was a researcher and university professor who studied educational psychology and advocated for eugenics in the United States…
EugenicsBinet TestIntelligence testsReproductionIntelligence
Thesis: Changes in American Judicial Behavior in Disability Discrimination Cases in Response to Anti-Discrimination Legislation
By: Nathaniel Ross
| Published: Aug 26, 2024
Disabled people have historically lacked legal protection and often faced discrimination in healthcare, reproductive rights, education, and more…
Disability studiesLawSpecial EducationAmericans with Disabilities ActDisability Law
Thesis: Vasectomy: Goals, Practices, and Effects
By: Cole Nichols
| Published: Aug 26, 2024
Vasectomy is one of few widely available methods of contraception for people with male reproductive systems aside from condoms, abstinence, and…
ContraceptionBirth ControlVasectomyEugenicsVasovasostomy
Vasectomy for Male Sterilization
By: Cole Nichols
| Published: Jun 03, 2024
A vasectomy is a surgery that works to inhibit reproduction by interrupting the passage of sperm through the vas deferens, a tube in the male…
VasectomyVasovasostomyVasectomy ReversalEugenicsSterilization, Reproductive
Stump v. Sparkman (1978)
By: Nathaniel Ross
| Published: Aug 23, 2022
On March 28, 1978, in Stump v. Sparkman, hereafter Stump, the United States Supreme Court held, in a five-to-three decision, that judges have…
LawSterilizationSterilization of womenInvoluntary SterilizationJudicial immunity
Harry Clay Sharp (1870-1940)
By: Cole Nichols
| Published: Jun 08, 2022
Harry Clay Sharp was a surgeon who performed one of the first recorded vasectomies with the purpose of sterilizing a patient. Sterilization is the…
VasectomyEugenicsSterilizationFamily PlanningMale Sterilization
A Series of YouTube Videos Detailing the “CRISPR Babies” Experiment (2018), by He Jiankui
By: Risa Aria Schnebly, Brianna Ellis
| Published: Jul 31, 2021
In 2018, He Jiankui uploaded a series of videos to a YouTube channel titled “The He Lab” that detailed one of the first instances of a successful…
Literaturegene editingGenome EditingCRISPR (Genetics)CRISPR-associated protein 9
The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness (1912), by Henry Herbert Goddard
By: James W. Dennert
| Published: Jul 30, 2021
In 1912, Henry Herbert Goddard published The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, hereafter The Kallikak Family, in which…
LiteratureIntellectual DisabilityMental DeficiencyEugenicsEugenics--United States--History