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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
Olmstead v. L.C. (1999)
By: Nathaniel Ross
| Published: Sep 28, 2022
In the 1999 case Olmstead v. L.C., hereafter Olmstead, the United States Supreme Court held in a six to three decision that the forced segregation of…
LawDisability awarenessDisability cultureIntellectual disability facilities patientsDisabilities
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 Hershey-Chase Experiments (1952), by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: Jun 23, 2019
In 1951 and 1952, Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase conducted a series of experiments at the Carnegie Institute of Washington in Cold Spring Harbor,…
BacteriophagesDNACold Spring Harbor LaboratoryProtein PrecursorsAmino Acid Sequence
Chicago Women’s Liberation Union (1969–1977)
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Jul 03, 2018
The Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, hereafter Union or CWLU, was a feminist union that operated in Chicago, Illinois, from 1969 to 1977 and was the…
OrganizationWomen's rightsSexismFamily Planningfeminism
Simone Mary Campbell (1945–)
By: Claire Cleveland
| Published: Jun 25, 2018
Simone Campbell is a Roman Catholic sister, attorney, and poet who advocated for social justice, especially equal access to healthcare in the US in…
ObamacareNunsPatient Protection and Affordable Care ActCampbell, SimoneAffordable Care Act
Alec Jeffreys’s Experiments to Identify Individuals by Their Beta-globin Genes (1977-1979)
By: Corey Harbison
| Published: Jul 20, 2017
In a series of experiments in the late 1970s, Alec J. Jeffreys in the UK and Richard A. Flavell in the Netherlands developed a technique to detect…
DNA fingerprintingForensic sciencesGlobin genesNucleic acid hybridizationIn Situ Hybridization
The Apgar Score (1953-1958)
By: Carolina J. Abboud
| Published: Feb 16, 2017
In 1952 Virginia Apgar, a physician at the Sloane Women’s Hospital in New York City, New York, created the Apgar score as a method of evaluating…
Apgar, Virginia, 1909-1974ObstetricsAnesthesiologySloane Hospital for Women (New York, N.Y.)Cesarean Section
Gender-affirming Mastectomy
By: Riley McInnis
| Published: Nov 10, 2022
Gender-affirming mastectomy is a type of surgery that removes breast tissue, tightens the skin, and can adjust nipple placement to provide the…
TechnologyTransgender menTransgender youthTransgender ChildrenTransphobia
Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879-1966)
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy, Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Oct 13, 2016
Margaret Higgins Sanger advocated for birth control in the United States and Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.…
Planned Parenthood Federation of AmericaBirth ControlContraceptionReproductive RightsArizona