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Thesis: From Fertilization to Birth: Representing Development in High School Biology Textbooks
By: Karen Linette Wellner
| Published: Feb 14, 2021
Biology textbooks are everybody's business. In accepting the view that texts are created with specific social goals in mind, I examined 127 twentieth…
TextbooksBook IllustrationsPictorial WorkPublications
Thesis: How Purported Scientific Failures Have Led to Advancements in IVF
By: Whitney Alexandra Tuoti
| Published: Mar 17, 2021
This thesis shows us the history of how some of the first attempts at IVF in humans using various options such as donated egg cells and cryopreserved…
Fertilization in VitroIn vitro fertilizationScience in literatureMedical Laboratory SciencePublications
Thesis: A History of Cellular Senescence and Its Relation to Stem Cells in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Dec 16, 2020
This study aims to provide information to answer the following question: While some scientists claim they can indefinitely culture a stem cell line…
AgingsenescenceCell Culture TechniquesCell culturePublications
Dissertation: Reducing Abortion Rates Without Restricting Legal Access to Abortion: Evidence from Comparative Analysis of Relevant Policies and Demographic Indicators in 15 Post-Soviet Countries and Adaptive Agent-Based Modeling of Unintended Pregnancies
By: Dina Ziganshina
| Published: Aug 26, 2024
Abortion is a controversial topic internationally. Most current debates about abortion concern when, if at all, it should be legal. However,…
Social ResearchLawComputer ScienceAbortionAbortion law
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
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
Essay: Review of Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos
By: Lijing Jiang, Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 22, 2012
To Lynn M. Morgan, the Mary E. Woolley Professor of Anthropology at Mt. Holyoke College, nothing says life more than a dead embryo. In her easily…
EssayHuman embryoFetusPublications
Essay: The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate
By: Valerie Racine
| Published: Oct 07, 2013
In 1830, a dispute erupted in the halls of lÕAcad mie des Sciences in Paris between the two most prominent anatomists of the nineteenth century.…
EssayAnimals--ClassificationCuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832AnatomyBiological Evolution