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Havasupai Tribe v. the Arizona Board of Regents (2008)
By: Tea Zawilak
| Published: Aug 10, 2025
In 2004, the Havasupai Tribe filed a lawsuit against the Arizona Board of Regents and several Arizona State University professors after discovering…
Informed ConsentEthics, ResearchAmerican Indian or Alaska NativeResearch--Moral and ethical aspectsIndians of North America
Irving Freiler Stein Sr. (1887–1976)
By: Alexis Darby
| Published: Jul 20, 2017
Irving Freiler Stein Sr. was a physician who studied women’s reproductive health during the twentieth century in the United States. In partnership…
Polycystic ovary syndromeInfertilityInfertility, FemaleovaryContraception
The Arterial Switch Operation (1954-1975)
By: Daniella Caudle
| Published: May 27, 2017
The arterial switch operation, also called the Jatene procedure, is an operation in which surgeons redirect the flow of blood through abnormal hearts…
TechnologyJatene, AdibTransposition of Great VesselsCongenital Heart DiseaseAorta--Abnormalities
“Pelvic Scoring for Elective Induction” (1964), by Edward Bishop
By: Carolina J. Abboud
| Published: Feb 23, 2017
In the 1964 article, “Pelvic Scoring for Elective Induction,” obstetrician Edward Bishop describes his method to determine whether a doctor should…
LiteratureBishop, Edward H.ChildbirthLabor, Induced (Obstetrics)Obstetrics
Oviraptor philoceratops Dinosaurs
By: Madison Paige
| Published: Feb 11, 2015
Oviraptor philoceratops was a small bird-like dinosaur that lived about seventy-five million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period. In 1923,…
OviraptorDinosaurs--EggsNatural history museumsPaleobiologyEvolutionary paleobiology
Lynn Petra Alexander Sagan Margulis (1938-2011)
By: Dorothy Regan Haskett
| Published: Mar 23, 2014
Lynn Petra Alexander Sagan Margulis was an American biologist, whose work in the mid-twentieth century focused on cells living together in a mutually…
Eukaryotic cellsMitosissymbiosisMitochondriaMicroorganisms--Evolution
Endothelium
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Jan 28, 2014
The endothelium is the layer of cells lining the blood vessels in animals. It weighs more than one kilogram in adult humans, and it covers a surface…
EndotheliumTissuesEpitheliumCellsVascular endothelium
James Marion Sims (1813-1883)
By: Amanda Andrei
| Published: Apr 08, 2013
James 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-vaginalSurgery
Thesis: Overcoming a Cycle of Shame Through Menstrual Education: How Sources of Information Prepare Girls to Detect and Treat Abnormal Menstrual Bleeding
By: Emily Katherine Santora
| Published: Nov 30, 2021
Developing a codebook of definitions and exemplars of significant text segments and applying it to the collected data revealed several themes. For…
MenstruationMenstrual Hygiene ProductsReproductive HealthHealth educationMenstruation Disturbances
Dissertation: A Fetus By Any Other Name: How Words Shaped the Fetal Personhood Movement in US Courts and Society (1884-1973)
By: Carolina Abboud
| Published: Mar 24, 2021
The 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade was a significant event in the story of fetal personhood—the story of whether embryos and fetuses are legal…
Fetus--Legal status, laws, etc.--United StatesFetus--Research--Law and legislationEmbryoAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortion--Law and legislation