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China's One-Child Policy
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Mar 31, 2011
In September 1979, China's Fifth National People's Congress passed a policy that encouraged one-child families. Following this decision from the…
ContextethicsReproductionFertilityGovernment
Emil von Behring (1854–1917)
By: Maggie Zhou
| Published: Dec 01, 2022
Emil von Behring researched treatments for the common childhood disease diphtheria in Germany in the 1890s and early 1900s. Diphtheria is a lethal…
World War, 1914-1918Diphtheria ToxinDiphtheria AntitoxinDiphtheria--PreventionDiphtheria--Vaccination
Microsurgical Vasovasostomy
By: Cole Nichols
| Published: Aug 11, 2022
Vasovasostomy is a microsurgical procedure to restore fertility after vasectomy, a surgery that sterilizes the patient by severing the vas deferentia…
TechnologyVasovasostomyVas DeferensMicrosurgeryVas Occlusion
"'Doing the Month': Confinement and Convalescence of Chinese Women After Childbirth" (1978), by Barbara L.K. Pillsbury
By: Cecilia Chou
| Published: Mar 16, 2017
In 1978 Social Science and Medicine published Barbara L.K. Pillsbury's article, 'Doing the Month': Confinement and Convalescence of Chinese Women…
LiteratureMedicine, ChineseTraditional Chinese MedicinePostpartum DepressionPostpartum Period
Joseph Bolivar DeLee (1869–1942)
By: Sierra Hope Jones
| Published: Apr 20, 2021
Joseph Bolivar DeLee was an obstetrician in the US between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who advocated for the specialized teaching of…
Medicine--History--BibliographyMedicine--United States--HistoryMedicine--History--20th centuryChildbirthObstetrical Forceps
The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Jun 01, 2018
In 2002, Miramax Entertainment released The Magdalene Sisters, a film that portrays an interpretation of the true events experienced by four young…
LiteratureProstitutesProstitutes in motion picturesSex WorkersIreland
The International Eugenics Congresses (1912–1932)
By: Aliya R. Hoff
| Published: Jul 29, 2021
The International Eugenics Congresses consisted of three scientific meetings held in London, England, in 1912 and at the American Museum of Natural…
OrganizationEugenics--United States--HistoryEugenicsNazisNegative Eugenics
Margaret (Peggy) Goldwater (1909–1985)
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Oct 13, 2016
Margaret Goldwater advocated for birth control and reproductive rights in the United States during the twentieth century. Goldwater was a socialite…
Goldwater, Margaret, 1909-1985Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966ContraceptionDiaphragms, VaginalAbortion
Barry Morris Goldwater (1909–1998)
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Oct 28, 2016
Barry Morris Goldwater was a Republican Arizona Senator and US presidential candidate in the twentieth-century whose policies supported the women's…
Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966ContraceptionPlanned Parenthood Federation of AmericaWomen's rights