This work tells the story of a group of reformers dedicated to making contraception legal, accessible, and acceptable. It details how Margaret Sanger's campaign beginning in 1914 to challenge anti ...

The Wood Library Museum of Anesthesiology in Schaumburg, Illinois-a sprawling exurb of Chicago-is home to an obstetric treasure: a plaster cast of a newborn infant's head. The bust shows the trauma of ...

Despite what some natural birth enthusiasts might imply, there was never a time when women gave birth without pain, according to this eloquent account from historian Inglis (Milk of Paradise).

On its face, The Icon and the Idealist is not a book about abortion. Thanks to advances in technology and medical knowledge, Americans have become accustomed to an ideological separation between ...