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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Visualize Fetal Abnormalities
By: Dasia Garcia
| Published: Jun 21, 2017
Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique to create a three-dimensional image of a fetus. Doctors often use MRIs to image a fetuses…
TechnologyMagnetic resonance imagingNuclear Magnetic ResonanceFetusDiagnostic ultrasonic imaging
Ian Donald (1910–1987)
By: Nicole Erjavic
| Published: Jan 30, 2018
Ian Donald was an obstetrician who developed the technology and therapy of ultrasound diagnostics during the twentieth century in Europe. Ultrasound…
ObstetricsGynecologyRespiratory therapy for newborn infantsFetal MedicineRespiratory Distress Syndrome
The Infant Incubator in Europe (1860-1890)
By: Kelsey Locey
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
In the nineteenth century, obstetricians in Europe began to construct devices to incubate infants in increasingly controlled environments. The infant…
TechnologyPremature InfantsObstetricsMaternal and infant welfareIncubators (Pediatrics)
Bernard Nathanson (1926-2011)
By: Mark Zhang
| Published: Apr 22, 2013
Bernard Nathanson was an obstetrician and gynecologist in New York City, New York, who argued for, and later against, women's rights to abortion.…
PeopleObstetriciansGynecologistsAbortionUltrasonics in obstetrics
Women’s Right to Know Act (2019) by Americans United for Life
By: Richa Venkatraman
| Published: Jun 23, 2021
In 2019, Americans United for Life, hereafter AUL, published a model legislation, called the Women’s Right to Know Act, in their annual publication…
LiteratureAbortionAbortion, InducedInduced AbortionMaternal-Fetal Medicine
Eclipse of Reason (1987)
By: Sepehr Abdi-Moradi
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
Eclipse of Reason is a 1987 anti-abortion documentary film directed, filmed, and narrated by Bernard Nathanson, an obstetrician in the US. American…
LiteratureAbortionLate-term abortionPro-life movementFetus
William Smellie (1697–1763)
By: Yvette Tran
| Published: May 30, 2017
William Smellie helped to incorporate scientific medicine into the process of childbirth in eighteenth century Britain. As a male physician…
MidwivesObstetrical ForcepsChildbirthObstetricsLabor (Obstetrics)
Marshall Henry Klaus (1927–2017)
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Jul 17, 2018
Marshall Henry Klaus was a scientist and pediatrician who studied maternal-infant bonding in the twentieth century in the United States. Maternal-…
Mother and infantMother-Infant InteractionDoulasLaborObstetrics
Pierre Budin (1846-1907)
By: Kelsey Locey
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
Pierre Constant Budin worked in France to improve the lives of newborns and their mothers during the late nineteenth century. Budin stressed the…
Budin, P. (Pierre), 1846-1907BreastfeedingPremature InfantsBreast milkFetus
Martius Flap Procedure to Repair Obstetric Fistulas
By: Patsy Ciardullo
| Published: Apr 10, 2017
The Martius flap procedure is a surgical procedure used to treat obstetric fistulas in women. Heinrich Martius developed the procedure in twentieth…
TechnologyReproductive HealthFistulaUrinary IncontinenceWomen's health services