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“Reproductive Injustice: Racial and Gender Discrimination in U.S. Healthcare” (2014), by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
By: Richa Venkatraman
| Published: Feb 10, 2021
In 2014, the Center for Reproductive Rights, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, and the National Latina Institute for…
LiteratureRacismRacism in social servicesRacism in public administrationRacism in medicine
Amanda Sims Memorial Fund (1930–1935)
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Sep 08, 2020
In 1930, physician Joseph Colt Bloodgood founded the Amanda Sims Memorial Fund, or the ASMF, a United States cancer awareness organization that…
OrganizationCervix uteri--CancerCervical CancerWomen's health servicesWomen's health services--United States
Carol Downer (1933– )
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Apr 09, 2019
Carol Downer was a reproductive health and abortion rights activist in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the US and other countries. During…
AbortionWomen's rights--United States--History--20th centuryCannulaWomen's health services--United StatesAmerican Public Health Association
“Guideline for the Study and Evaluation of Gender Differences in the Clinical Evaluation of Drugs” (July 1993), by the United States Food and Drug Administration
By: Caroline Meek
| Published: Jan 28, 2019
The US Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, published the “Guideline for the Study and Evaluation of Gender Differences in the Clinical Evaluation…
LawDrug approvalWomen's health services--United StatesLegislation, DrugClinical medicine--Research
Julia Clifford Lathrop (1858–1932)
By: Katherine Madgett
| Published: May 22, 2017
Julia Clifford Lathrop was an activist and social reformer in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries and the first chief of the United…
Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932United States. Children's BureauPrenatal care--Law and legislationMaternal and infant welfare--United StatesWomen's health services--United States
Prenatal Care (1913), by Mary Mills West
By: Katherine Madgett
| Published: May 18, 2017
Prenatal Care is an educational booklet written by Mary Mills West of the US Children’s Bureau and published by the US Government Printing Office in…
LiteraturePrenatal CareUnited States. Children's BureauPrenatal care--Law and legislationPrenatal care--Utilization
Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Protection Act (1921)
By: Katherine Madgett
| Published: May 18, 2017
In November 1921, US Congress passed the National Maternity and Infancy Protection Act, also called the Sheppard-Towner Act. The Act provided federal…
LawPrenatal care--Law and legislationMaternal and infant welfare--United StatesPregnancyBirth
Our Bodies, Ourselves (1973), by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective
By: Maggie Pingolt
| Published: Jun 21, 2013
Our Bodies, Ourselves, a succession to a pamphlet of resources pulled from co-ops of women in and around Boston, Massachusetts was published in New…
LiteratureReproductionPregnancyEmbryosWomen's health services--United States