C. Anthony Ryan et al.
A letter from George Boole and Victorian attitudes towards pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding
Rachel Baker
Birth trays in the Italian Renaissance
Arpan K. Banerjee
Ian Donald: Ultrasound pioneer
Julius P. Bonello and Ajoke Maryam Iromini
The history of the C-section
Chinmoy K. Bose
The el-Lahun gynecological papyrus
Sara Buck
Forceps: a brief history
Leaders in the development of Western obstetric practice
Nursan Cinar, Sumeyra Topal, and Sinem Yalnizoglu Caka
A history of breastfeeding and wet nurses
Nursan Cinar, Hamide Zengin
Two hearts beating: The history and benefits of “Kangaroo Care”
Stephanie Colello
Cultural warfare: Investigating childbirth practices in Doctor Zhivago
Ian Cooke
Posthumous reproduction
Emily R. W. Davidson
Historical contraception: Birth control before “the pill”
George Dunea
How Gargantua was born
Divine birth: Eve, fashioned from Adam’s rib
Divine birth: Athena, born from her father’s head
Divine birth: birth of John the Baptist
Divine birth: Pegasus, born from Medusa’s blood
Divine birth: Aphrodite born from the foam of the sea
Divine birth: The birth of Moses
Divine birth: The birth of Santa Claus
The colorful birth of Saint Augustine of Hippo
Birth of Bacchus
Birth of Mary
Birth of Adonis
Seventeenth century obstetric illustrations
James Simpson, who made childbirth painless
George Dunea and Einar Perman
A royal pregnancy gone wrong
James Drife
Bob Edwards and the perils of publicity
Andrea Eisenberg
A brief life
Howard Fischer
Dr. Doyen separates conjoined twins in 1902
Lauren Fore
Emotional medicine
Katrina Genuis
The death of Francesca Tornabuoni: Examining childbirth amidst societal rebirth
Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
On a miraculous birth
A birth remembered
The dream of the uterus
Gloria Graham
Breastfeeding
Barbara Hargreaves
An unusual pregnancy: The gestation and delivery of the Nun of Watton
Kelsey Hart
A mother’s voice
Ndembou C. Jean-Louis
Welcome another Earth-dweller
Laura Kaplan
Changes in childbirth in the United States: 1750–1950
Kelly Klein
In the OR
Laura Loertscher
Enough
Erika L. Lundgrin
Broken water
Matko Marusic
Gynecology and obstetrics
Mary Oak
Labor of love
Puja Persaud
Galactagogues in postpartum rituals
Khwan Phusrisom
Traditional obstetrics in Isaan, Thailand
Jayant Radhakrishnan
Surgery, gynecology, obstetrics, and pain
Corey Nason Reese
Mildred Thornton Stahlman, pioneer in neonatology
Paul Rousseau
Miscarriage: a medical student in a rural clinic, Central America, 1977
Sukanya Sam
When did you last let your heart decide?
C. John Scott
Alexander Gordon and puerperal fever
Mary Sommers
Miracle on Kedvale
When angels sing
Terrence Stephenson
The history of fertility preservation in young people with cancer
Katie Taylor
Doctoring while pregnant
Mariel Tishma
Justine Siegemund, opening doorways to midwifery
Princewill Udom
Infertility in Nigeria and the race for parenthood
Jennifer Walker
Worth the wait new
Eva-Sabine Zehelein
“Sara, Bill, Kristine, … you’re pregnant!” Gestational surrogacy, biomedicalized bodies and reconceptualizations of motherhood
Vignettes
Why are most babies born at night?
A physician and a pregnant patient
A cesarean section in Uganda in 1879 (Howard Fischer)
Credé’s maneuver (Avi Ohry)
Israel Spach the biographer and the Lithopedion of Sens (Avi Ohry)
Massaging the baby (Erin Frosch) WIN ’25