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Thesis: Uterine Technologies: Ethical and Social Considerations
By: Aubrey Pinteric
| Published: Aug 14, 2025
Over the past few decades, female infertility rates have been steadily increasing. As of 2025, various infertility treatments, including IVF and…
ReproductionWomen's HealthBiologyethicsUterus
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
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: 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: Reproduction in Science Fiction
By: Grace Dayoung Kim
| Published: Feb 10, 2021
Science fiction works can reflect the relationship between science and society by telling stories that are set in the future of ethical implications…
Science FictionLiteratureScience in literaturePublicationsReproduction
Thesis: The Genesis of Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
By: Bianca Zietal
| Published: Feb 01, 2021
This is a project about medicine and the history of a condition called premenstrual syndrome (PMS), its “discovery” and conceptual development at…
Premenstrual syndromeScience in literatureMedicine in literatureReproduction
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: Fetal Risk, Federal Response: How Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Influenced the Adoption of Alcohol Health Warning Labels
By: Erica O’Neil
| Published: Jan 21, 2021
In the fifteen years between the discovery of fetal alcohol syndrome, or FAS, in 1973 and the passage of alcohol beverage warning labels in 1988, FAS…
fetal alcohol syndromeAlcoholism in pregnancyChildren of prenatal alcohol abusepublic healthFederal Government
Thesis: Abortion: An objective lens at the formation of the polarization and stigma
By: Sepehr Abdi-Moradi
| Published: Dec 02, 2020
With all of the tension surrounding the moral significance of the abortion issue, the question arises: How did specific figureheads, events, and…
AbortionStigmatizationReproduction