Reflecting on the controversy surrounding her 1969 exposé, The Doctors’ Case Against the Pill, Barbara Seaman recalled that her early […]
The Personal is Historical
Welcome to the Nursing Clio Mini Syllabi Series! We’ve been publishing essays since 2014, and with over 1,800 essays, we’ve […]
The HRT Boomerang: The Rise, Fall, and Rise again of Hormone Replacement Therapy for Menopause
Black box warnings are the most severe regulatory alerts used by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), reserved for medications […]
The “Keeper” of Modern US Eugenics: How AI Matchmaking Perpetuates Eugenic Love
In 2022, tech entrepreneurs Jake Kozloski and Cody Zervas launched a new dating website. Unlike Bumble or Hinge, this site […]
Controlling the Womb: Lessons from Nazi Germany for a Post-Roe America
“We allow the massacre of a million and a half babies a year under the guise of women’s reproductive health…It […]
Community Organizing for Health Justice: Reproductive Justice Activism and the Coalition to Fight Infant Mortality
An enduring struggle for communities of color, infant mortality is a major issue especially for pregnant Black women and their […]
A Review of Leonard M. Lopoo’s Wanting Children: Family-Planning Policies and the Engineering of America’s Population (University of Chicago Press, 2026).
Since its inception in 1970, Title X – the United States government’s federal family planning program – has primarily focused […]
Registration of Maternity Homes Act, 1934: Institutional inadequacy and indifference in Irish maternity homes
A breaking headline from 2014 reads: “Ireland Investigates Alleged Discovery of 800 Babies in Sewer Tank.”[1] Historian Catherine Corless, who […]
“Presumptive Testimony Only”: From Esther Davis to Patience Rousseau, Two Centuries of Criminalizing Pregnancy Loss
In summer 1802, a Baltimore jury convicted Esther Davis of murdering her newborn child. The newspapers that carried the story […]
Review of Abortion Stories: American Literature before Roe v. Wade, ed. Karen Weingarten (Penguin Classics, 2025)
Abortion Stories: 9780143138204 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books The U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in June 2022 […]
