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In September 1979, China's Fifth National People's Congress passed a policy that encouraged one-child families. Following this decision from the…
ContextethicsReproductionFertilityGovernmentWhat Every Mother Should Know was published in 1914 in New York City, New York, as a compilation of newspaper articles written by Margaret Sanger in…
LiteratureObscenity (Law)Abortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinicsEstablished in 1950, the Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson provided Arizona women with family planning resources until 1977, when it expanded to…
OrganizationSanger, Margaret, 1879-1966ContraceptionPlanned Parenthood Federation of AmericaInfertilityOn 16 October 1916, Margaret Sanger opened one of the first birth control clinics in the United States in Brooklyn, New York, which some have called…
OrganizationBirth ControlUnwanted pregnancyAbortionMargaret Sanger Papers ProjectFrancis Sellers Collins helped lead the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, which helped describe the DNA sequence of the human genome…
Human Genome ProjectNucleotide sequenceSequence Analysis, DNAGenomeIn 1952 the article "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" by the British mathematician and logician Alan M. Turing was published in Philosophical…
LiteratureTuring, Alan, 1912-1954MorphogenesisPublicationsModelsEstablished in tandem with Singapore's national Biomedical Sciences Initiatives, the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) was established by the…
OrganizationsSingaporeStem Cellsin vitroethicsJames Marion Sims developed a surgical cure for ruptures of the wall separating the bladder from the vagina during labor, ruptures called vesico-…
PeopleSims, J. Marion (James Marion), 1813-1883Speculum (Medicine)Fistula, Vesico-vaginalSurgeryThe 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 PlanningfeminismBetter babies contests were competitions held in state fairs throughout the US during the early twentieth century in which babies between the ages of…
EugenicsEugenics--United StatesEugenics--United States--HistoryAgricultural exhibitionscompetitions