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Mammography
By: Dina A. Lienhard
| Published: Mar 25, 2018
Mammography or mastography is an imaging technology used in the twentieth century for the detection of breast cancer and other breast abnormalities.…
TechnologyTomosynthesisBreast--RadiographyMammographyBreast--Cancer--Imaging--Congresses
Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913–1994)
By: Dina A. Lienhard
| Published: Feb 26, 2018
Roger Wolcott Sperry studied the function of the nervous system in the US during the twentieth century. He studied split-brain patterns in cats and…
Split brainCorpus callosumEpilepsySplit-Brain ProcedureNeurons
Priscilla White (1900–1989)
By: Blaise Castagnetti
| Published: Feb 26, 2018
Priscilla White studied the treatment of diabetes in mothers, pregnant women, and children during the twentieth century in the US. White began…
DiabetesDiabetic childrenDiabetic angiopathies in childrenPregnancy in women with disabilitiesDiabetes in children
“Miscarriage of Medicine: The Growth of Catholic Hospitals and the Threat to Reproductive Health Care” (2013), by Lois Uttley, Sheila Reynertson, Larraine Kenny, and Louise Melling
By: Claire Cleveland
| Published: Feb 18, 2018
In 2013, Lois Uttley, Sheila Reynertson, Larraine Kenny, and Louise Melling published “Miscarriage of Medicine: The Growth of Catholic Hospitals and…
LiteratureAbortionBirth ControlCatholicReproduction
Ernest John Christopher Polge (1926-2006)
By: Bailey Renee
| Published: Jan 30, 2018
Twentieth-century researcher Ernest John Christopher Polge studied the reproductive processes of livestock and determined a method to successfully…
Smith, Audrey U.Parkes, A. S. (Alan Sterling), 1900-1990National Institute for Medical Research (Great Britain)Medical Research Council (Great Britain)Glycerin
Ian Donald (1910–1987)
By: Nicole Erjavic
| Published: Jan 30, 2018
Ian Donald was an obstetrician who developed the technology and therapy of ultrasound diagnostics during the twentieth century in Europe. Ultrasound…
ObstetricsGynecologyRespiratory therapy for newborn infantsFetal MedicineRespiratory Distress Syndrome
The British Doctors’ Study (1951–2001)
By: Phil Gaetano
| Published: Jan 30, 2018
From 1951 to 2001, researchers at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, conducted the British Doctors’ Study, a study that examined the…
Doll, RichardHill, A. Bradford (Austin Bradford), 1897-1991Tobacco use--Health aspectsTobacco UseLungs--Cancer
Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Jan 22, 2018
Emma Goldman was a traveling public speaker and writer known for her anarchist political views as well as her opinions on contraception and birth…
AnarchismReproductive RightsAbortionBirth ControlHomestead Strike, Homestead, Pa., 1892
The People of the State of New York v. Margaret H. Sanger (1918)
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Jan 22, 2018
In 1918, the New York State Court of Appeals in Albany broadened the justification physicians could use to prescribe contraceptives to married…
LawObscenity (Law)Abortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinics
Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874)
By: Mudhaffar Bahjat
| Published: Jan 22, 2018
Chāng (Chang) and Ēn (Eng) Bunker were conjoined twins in the nineteenth century in the United States, the first pair of conjoined twins whose…
Conjoined twinsSiamese TwinsTwinsIdentical twinsTwins, Siamese