With the arrival of cheaper and more user-friendly home pregnancy tests in the 1980s, women were able to confirm their pregnancies earlie...

In the decade and a half that I spent researching my book “The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America,” I dis...

Lara Freidenfelds’s new book, The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America, explores the history of pregnancy a...

After I miscarried my first pregnancy, I quickly realized that I needed a historical perspective to make sense of this shockingly unexpec...

It was not that long ago that “test tube babies” only existed in science fiction. I remember my shock when, in 2007, one of my students a...

What happens when the person who delivers most of the babies in her community is arrested? This is a tale of two midwives, separated by n...

Last week at a Vatican conference on abortion, Pope Francis “argued that children who were not expected to live long after birth deserved...

“Wait on the curb, kids. Wait until I say you can cross.” Janice, the crossing guard at Fairmount Avenue, stepped briskly into traffic, w...

“In her new book, “Becoming,” Michelle Obama reveals that she miscarried her first pregnancy, and went on to conceive her two daughters b...

Quick — is your nearest hospital affiliated with the Catholic Church? This is a question I would not have been able to answer during my tw...

Randi Hutter Epstein’s new book, Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything, traces the development of o...

What led a Walgreeens pharmacist to deny a woman her prescription. Read the rest at the Washington Post #conscienceclause #misoprostol

In December of 2016, I wrote an essay for Nursing Clio called Nurse-Midwives are With Women, Walking a Middle Path to a Safe and Rewardin...

I would call it a “pet peeve,” but the stakes are higher: I can’t stand policy arguments based on inaccurate or misrepresented historical...

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Sharrona Pearl about her new book, Face/On: Transplants and the Ethics of the Other. Below a...

“If men could menstruate,” Gloria Steinem observed wryly in an iconic 1978 essay for Ms. magazine, “[s]anitary supplies would be federall...

Last year I learned how to chop a carrot with my eyes closed. While being filmed. Sounds like one of those crazy reality cooking shows, l...

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine asked me to write a blog post about how women handled menstruation in the nineteenth century, a...