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Your Baby’s Sex: Now You Can Choose (1970), by David M. Rorvik and Landrum B. Shettles
By: Alysse Blight
| Published: Oct 31, 2019
In the book Your Baby’s Sex: Now You Can Choose, David Michael Rorvik and Landrum Brewer Shettles describe methods that couples can use prior to and…
LiteratureSex PreselectionSex PredeterminationFamily PlanningGender
An Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (1895), by Edmund Beecher Wilson
By: Kevin M. Gleason
| Published: Apr 20, 2017
Edmund Beecher Wilson in the US published An Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (hereafter called An Atlas) in 1895. The book…
LiteratureKaryokinesisFertilization (Biology)ConceptionDevelopmental Biology
A Child Is Born (1965), by Lennart Nilsson
By: Mark Zhang
| Published: Sep 17, 2013
Dell Publishing in New York City, New York, published Lennart Nilsson's A Child Is Born in 1966. The book was a translation of the Swedish version…
LiteraturedevelopmentPregnancyfetal developmentFetal Growth
40 Weeks (2014)
By: Jessica Cartwright
| Published: Jan 30, 2019
In 2014, Big Belli, a media and social networking brand, released a documentary called 40 Weeks online. The documentary, directed by Christopher…
LiteraturePregnancyConceptionLabor (Obstetrics)Prenatal influences
Davis v. Davis (1992)
By: Mark Zhang, Jennifer E. Chapman
| Published: Oct 17, 2013
In Davis v. Davis (1992), the Supreme Court of Tennessee decided a dispute over cryopreserved preembryos in favor of Junior Lewis Davis, who sought…
LawFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroAmerican Fertility SocietyConception
The Process of Implantation of Embryos in Primates
By: Justin M. Wolter
| Published: Mar 21, 2013
Implantation is a process in which a developing embryo, moving as a blastocyst through a uterus, makes contact with the uterine wall and remains…
FetusPregnancyEmbryologyDevelopmental BiologyEmbryos
York v. Jones (1989)
By: Jennifer E. Chapman
| Published: Oct 07, 2013
In the case York v. Jones (1989), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia was one of the first US courts to address a…
LawFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroConceptionAbortion
The Dalkon Shield
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Jan 10, 2018
The Dalkon Shield was an intrauterine contraceptive device (IUD) that women used in the early 1970s and 1980s. Produced by the A.H. Robins Company in…
TechnologyDalkon Shield (Intrauterine contraceptive)Intrauterine contraceptivesCopper intrauterine contraceptivesContraceptives
Dissertation: A Fetus By Any Other Name: How Words Shaped the Fetal Personhood Movement in US Courts and Society (1884-1973)
By: Carolina Abboud
| Published: Mar 24, 2021
The 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade was a significant event in the story of fetal personhood—the story of whether embryos and fetuses are legal…
Fetus--Legal status, laws, etc.--United StatesFetus--Research--Law and legislationEmbryoAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortion--Law and legislation
Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You (2015), by the British Broadcasting Corporation and The Open University
By: Jessica Cartwright
| Published: Nov 21, 2017
In 2015, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) partnered with The Open University to produce the three-part documentary series, Countdown to…
LiteratureConceptionGestationReproductionPhysiology