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    Agent Orange as a Cause of Spina Bifida 

    Chou, Cecilia
    Spina bifida is a birth defect that affects the spines of developing fetuses and infants, and research in the 20th century indicated that chemicals in the herbicide Agent Orange likely lead to the birth defect. People with ...
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    John Hunter (1728–1793) 

    Wagoner, Nevada
    John Hunter studied human reproductive anatomy, and in eighteenth century England, performed one of the earliest described cases of artificial insemination. Hunter dissected thousands of animals and human cadavers to study ...
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    "Adenocarcinoma of the Vagina: Association of Maternal Stilbestrol Therapy with Tumor Appearance in Young Women" (1971), by Arthur L. Herbst, et al. 

    Abboud, Alexis
    Published in 1971, Adenocarcinoma of the Vagina: Association of Maternal Stilbestrol Therapy with Tumor Appearance in Young Women, by Arthurs L. Herbst and colleagues, was the first piece of literature connecting maternal ...
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    The Malthusian League (1877–1927) 

    Nunez-Eddy, Claudia
    The Malthusian League, founded in London, England, in 1877 promoted the use of contraception to limit family size. Activists Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant established the Malthusian League after they were arrested and ...
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    Lydia Estes Pinkham (1819–1883) 

    Horwitz, Rainey
    Lydia Estes Pinkham invented and sold Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, a medicinal tonic used to treat menstrual discomfort and promote female reproductive health in general, in the US during the nineteenth century. ...
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    “Infant Survival After Cesarean Section for Trauma” (1996), by John A. Morris, Jr. et al. 

    Grayson, Claire Elise
    In the May 1996 edition of The Annals of Surgery, John A. Morris and his collaborators published “Infant Survival After Cesarean Section for Trauma,” in which they evaluate the use of emergency cesarean sections for the ...
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    Aristotle (384-322 BCE) 

    Haskett, Dorothy Regan; Racine, Valerie; Yang, Joanna
    Aristotle studied developing organisms, among other things, in ancient Greece, and his writings shaped Western philosophy and natural science for greater than two thousand years. He spent much of his life in Greece and ...
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    Mary Coffin Ware Dennett (1872-1947) 

    Malladi, Lakshmeeramya
    Mary Coffin Ware Dennett advocated for social reform in the United States in the early twentieth century, particularly regarding sex education and women's rights to access contraception. Dennett authored several publications ...
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    Beadle and Ephrussi Show that Something Besides Eye Tissue Determines Eye Color in Fruit Flies 

    Pribadi, Amy (Arizona State University. School of Life Sciences. Center for Biology and Society. Embryo Project Encyclopedia., 2016-10-11)
    In the 1930s, George Beadle and Boris Ephrussi discovered factors that affect eye colors in developing fruit flies. They did so while working at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. (1) They took ...
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    Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879-1966) 

    Nunez-Eddy, Claudia; Malladi, Lakshmeeramya
    Margaret Higgins Sanger advocated for birth control in the United States and Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although people used contraceptives prior to the twentieth century, in the US ...
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