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Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis demonstrated that the use of disinfectants could reduce the occurrence of puerperal fever in patients in nineteenth century…
Puerperal septicemiaSepsisSepticemiaAntisepticsInfection, PuerperalIn 1980 the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) released a report…
LiteratureCesarean SectionCesarean section--ComplicationsObstetricsFetusWashington University in St. Louis served as the backdrop for many scientific discoveries, including that of nerve growth factor (NGF). Many of the…
OrganizationOrganizationsEducationBarry 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 rightsAnnie Wood Besant was a social activist who advocated for women’s access to birth control as well as marriage reform, labor reform, and Indian…
Besant, Annie, 1847-1933Knowlton, Charles, 1800-1850Bradlaugh, Charles, 1833-1891Birth ControlObscenity (Law)--Great BritainThe Supreme Court of New Jersey decided the case of Berman v. Allan on 26 June 1979, brought by Shirley Berman and Paul Berman and their daughter…
LawWrongful lifeReproductionbioethicsGeorge Richard Tiller, a doctor who performed abortions in Wichita, Kansas, was shot to death on 31 May 2009 by Scott Roeder. As the director of one…
AbortionLate-term abortionAbortion servicesFetusAbortion, LegalAlthough the concept of quickening was not developed initially by the Roman Catholic Church, much of their histories are intertwined. Quickening, the…
Human DevelopmentreligionFetusAbortionCatholicismOn 9 July 1990, in Moore v. Regents of the University of California, the Supreme Court of California ruled in a four-to-three decision that…
LawMedical laws and legislationLegal MedicineRight of propertyRight of property--United States--HistoryThe case of Smith v. Cote (1986) answered two important questions concerning law and childbirth: does the State of New Hampshire recognize a cause of…
LawCongenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and AbnormalitiesCongenital DisordersAbortion