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Annie Wood Besant was a social activist who advocated for women’s access to birth control as well as marriage reform, labor reform, and Indian…
Besant, Annie, 1847-1933Knowlton, Charles, 1800-1850Bradlaugh, Charles, 1833-1891Birth ControlObscenity (Law)--Great BritainIn the late-twentieth century in the United States, Catherine DeAngelis was a pediatric physician, researcher, and editor of multiple medical…
PediatricsPrimary CareWomen in MedicineIn the 1973 court case Doe v. Bolton, the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., ruled that a Georgia law regulating abortion was unconstitutional.…
LawBirth control clinicsAbortionFamily planning servicesAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesButt Out for Baby was a smoking cessation intervention guide, aimed at community health workers, that the Child and Youth Health group published in…
LiteratureSmoking CessationCigarette SmokingNicotine AddictionPregnant women--Tobacco useBetween 1958 and 1962, physicians Olive W. Smith, George V. Smith, and Robert W. Kistner performed experiments that demonstrated the effects of the…
EthamoxytriphetolEstrogen AntagonistsClomiphenePituitary glandovaryIn 2015, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) partnered with The Open University to produce the three-part documentary series, Countdown to…
LiteratureConceptionGestationReproductionPhysiologyIn the late nineteenth century, August Karl Gustav Bier was a surgeon in Germany who studied spinal cord anesthesia, later called spinal block. Bier…
Spinal anesthesiaHyperemiaSpine--PunctureLumbar PunctureAnesthesia, RegionalIn the mid-1960s, psychologist John Money encouraged the gender reassignment of David Reimer, who was born a biological male but suffered irreparable…
Sex changeGender IdentitypsychologyGenderSexual and Gender DisordersIn 2012 Ann S. Masten and Angela J. Narayan published the article “Child Development in the Context of Disaster, War, and Terrorism: Pathways of Risk…
LiteraturePost-Traumatic Stress DisorderChildren and warChild disaster victimsPost-traumatic stress disorder in childrenIn 2007, Philippe Horvath and his colleagues explained how bacteria protect themselves against viruses at Danisco, a Danish food company, in Dangé-…
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