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Thesis: Dismantling Legal Constraints to Contraception in the 1900s
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Jan 27, 2021
In the late nineteenth century, the Comstock Act of 1873 made the distribution of contraception illegal and classified contraception as an obscenity…
ContraceptionReproductive RightsBirth control in literatureFertility ControlSocial Change
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
Thesis: Non-Medical Origins of Reproductive Health Solutions in the US
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Feb 23, 2021
By demonstrating the struggle for sound standard of care for non-medical reproductive health care providers during the nineteenth and early twentieth…
Health care reformReproductive Health ServicesReproductive Healthreproductive historyOrganizations
Thesis: Surprising Religious and Republican Roots to Planned Parenthood: An Arizona Case Study
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Dec 14, 2020
The social and political history surrounding Planned Parenthood Arizona illustrates the interplay between politics and the reproductive rights…
Politics and governmentWorld politicsPoliticsPlanned Parenthood Federation of AmericaCase Study
Thesis: Reviving the Dead, Ignoring the Living: Emotions, Ethics, and the Dream of De-Extinction
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Nov 30, 2021
The goal of this research project was to examine how different messaging techniques, and especially expressions of emotionality surrounding the loss…
Extinction (Biology)Genetic EngineeringCommunication in scienceReproductive Healthconservation
Thesis: Vasectomy: Goals, Practices, and Effects
By: Cole Nichols
| Published: Aug 26, 2024
Vasectomy is one of few widely available methods of contraception for people with male reproductive systems aside from condoms, abstinence, and…
ContraceptionBirth ControlVasectomyEugenicsVasovasostomy
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