Season 1 & 2 Resources

Season 1- Episode 1: The Wonderful and Weird World of Birthing Mannequins Part 1

  • R. Ballestrierio, “Anatomical Models and Wax Venuses: Art Masterpieces or Scientific Craft Works?,” Journal of Anatomy 216 (2020): 223–234 
  • Margaret Carlyle, “Phantoms in the Classroom: Midwifery Training in Enlightenment Europe,” KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge 2, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 111–136 
  • Joanna Ebenstein, The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death and the Ecstatic (New York: D.A.P. Publishers, Inc., 2016) 
  • Anthony Ferguson, The Sex Doll: A History (London: McFarland & Co., 2014) 
  • Harry Owen, “Simulation in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Midwifery” (Ch. 4) in Simulation in Healthcare Education: An Extensive History (Springer: Heidelberg; New York; Dordrecht; London, 2016), 69–244 
  • Ian Shank, “The Romantic, Macabre History of the Anatomical Venus,” Artsy (29 January 2018), Elizabeth Stephens, “Venus in the Archive: Anatomical Waxworks of the Pregnant Body,” Australian Feminist Studies 25, no. 64 (June 2010): 133–145

Season 1- Episode 2: The Wonderful and Weird World of Birthing Mannequins Part 2

  • Kate Devlin, Turned on Science: Science, Sex and Robots (London: Bloomsbury Sigma, 2018) 
  • Anthony Ferguson, The Sex Doll: A History (London: McFarland & Co., 2014) 
  • Roxane Gardner and Daniel B. Raemer, “Simulation in Obstetrics and Gynecology,” Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America 35, no. 1 (2008): 97–127 
  • Guys and Dolls (BBC documentary, 2011) 
  • Terry Kapsalis, Public Privates: Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997) 
  • Harry Owen, “Simulation in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Midwifery” (Ch. 4) in Simulation in Healthcare Education: An Extensive History (Springer: Heidelberg; New York; Dordrecht; London, 2016), 69–244 
  • Shad Deering and Tamika C. Auguste, “Simulation in Obstetrics and Gynecology” (Ch. 30) in The Comprehensive Textbook in Healthcare Simulation, ed. Adam I. Levine, Samuel DeMaria Jr., Andrew D. Schwartz, Alan J. Sim (Springer: Heidelberg; New York; Dordrecht; London, 2014), 437–452 
  • Julie Wosk, My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids and Other Artificial Eves (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015) 

Season 1- Episode 3: Fertility—Sowing Seeds From Barren to Infertile

  • Christina Benninghaus, “Modern Infertility” (Ch. 31) and Nick Hopwood, “Artificial Fertilization” (Ch. 39) in Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day, ed. Nick Hopwood, Rebecca Flemming, Lauren Kassell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 457–470; 581–596 
  • Katharine Dow, “The Men Who made the Breakthrough’: How the British Press Represented Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards in 1978,” Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online 4 (2017): 59–67 
  • Robin Marantz Henig, Pandora’s Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004) 
  • Robin E. Jenson, Infertility: Tracing the History of a Transformative Term (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2016) 
  • Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (New York: Vintage Books, 1998) 

Season 1- Episode 4: Contraception—Conceiving Contraception The Complicated History of Birth Control

  • Laura Briggs, “Demon Mothers in the Social Laboratory—Development: Overpopulation, and ‘the Pill,’ 1940–1960,” (Ch. 4) in Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico (Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA; London: University of California Press, 2002), 109–141 
  • Barbara Bush-Slimani, “Hard Labor: Women, Childbirth and Resistance in British Caribbean Slave Societies,” History Workshop no. 36 (Autumn 1993): 83–99 
  • Angela Y. Davis, “Racism, Birth Control, and Reproductive Rights” (Ch. 12) in Women, Race, and Class (New York: Random House, 1981), 202–221 
  • Jennifer Nelson, “‘An instrument of genocide’: The Black Nationalist Campaign Against Birth Control” (Ch. 3) in Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement (New York: NYU Press, 2003), 85–111 
  • Jesse Olszynko-Gryn, “Contraceptive Technologies” (Ch. 7) in Twentieth Century Population     “Say Her Name: Should Obstetrics and Gynecology Reckon with the Legacy of JM Sims Thinking: A Critical Reader of Primary Sources, ed. The Population Knowledge Network (London: Routledge, 2015), 172–209 
  • Dorothy Roberts, “The Dark Side of Birth Control” (Ch. 2) in Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (New York: Vintage Books, 1998), 56–103 
  • Londa Schiebinger, “Exotic Abortifacients and Lost Knowledge,” The Lancet 371, no. 9614 (March 2008): 718–719 

Season 1- Episode 5: Both Ends of the Speculum- The Mothers and Father of Gynaecology

  • “Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey Monument: The Mothers of Gynecology,” The More Up Campus Monica Christmas, “#Say Her Name: Should Obstetrics and Gynecology Reckon with the Legacy of JM Sims?,” Reproductive Sciences 28, no. 11 (November 2001): 3282–3284 
  • Clifton C. Crais & Pamela Scully, Sarah Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009) 
  • Dead Ringers (feature film by David Cronenberg, 1988) 
  • Terry Kapsalis, Public Privates: Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997) 
  • Adam Serwer, “Why a Statue of the ‘Father of Gynecology’ Had to Come Down,” The Atlantic (18 April 2018) 
  • J.M. Sims, “On the Treatment of Vesico-Vaginal Fistula,” American Journal of the Medical Sciences 45 (January 1852): 59–82

Season 1- Episode 6: A Womb With a View—The Birth of the X-Ray & Ultrasound

  • Willam G. Bradley, “History of Medical Imaging,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 152, no. 3 (September 2008): 349–361 
  • Margaret Carlyle and Brian Callender, “The Fetus in Utero: From Mystery to Social Media,” KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge 3, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 15–67. 
  • Brian Callender, Margaret Carlyle, and Julie Chor, “The Power and Politics of Fetal Imagery,” The Lancet 398, no. 10307 (October 2011): 1208–1209 
  • Salvator Levi, “The History of Ultrasound in Gynecology 1950–1980,” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 23, no. 4 (1997): 481–552. 
  • Lawrence D. Longo and Lawrence P. Reynolds, Wombs with a View: Illustrations of the Gravid Uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineeteenth Century (Springer: eidelberg; New York; Dordrecht; London, 2016). 
  • Roberta McGrath, Seeing Her Sex: Medical Archives and the Female Body (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002) 
  • Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, “Fetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction,” Feminist Studies 13, no. 2 (Summer 1987): 263–292 

Season 2- Episode 1 : Slow Genocide: Sterilization of Indigenous Peoples 

  • Akhtar, Z. (2010). Canadian Genocide and Official Culpability. In International Criminal Law Review (Vol. 10, pp. 111-135). DOI 10.1163/157181209X12584562670938
  • Adjin-Tettey, E., & Kodar, F. (2011). Film as a complement to the written text: Reflections on using the sterilization of Leilani muir to teach muir v. alberta. Alberta Law Review, 48(3), 615. https://doi.org/10.29173/alr145
  • Cairney, R. (1996). “democracy was never intended for degenerates”: Alberta’s flirtation with eugenics comes back to haunt it. Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), 155(6), 789-792.
  • Cheng, Maria. “Canada’s Indigenous Women Forcibly Sterilized Decades after Other Rich Countries Stopped,” CTV News, July 12, 2023. https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canada-s-indigenous-women-forcibly-sterilized-decades-after-other-rich-countries-stopped-1.6476708.
  • Fagen, E. (2013). Leilani muir: Eugenics on trial in canada. Peace and Conflict, 19(4), 358-361. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034603\
  • Grekul, J. (2008). Sterilization in Alberta, 1928 to 1972: Gender matters. The Canadian Review of Sociology, 45(3), 247-266. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-618X.2008.00014.x
  • Grekul, J., Krahn, A., & Odynak, D. (2004). Sterilizing the “feeble-minded”: Eugenics in Alberta, Canada, 1929-1972. Journal of Historical Sociology, 17(4), 358-384.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6443.2004.00237.x
  • Leason, J. J. (2021). Forced and coerced sterilization of indigenous women: Strengths to build upon. Canadian Family Physician, 67(7), 525-527. https://doi.org/10.46747/cfp.6707525’
  • Samson, A. (2014). Eugenics in the community: Gendered professions and eugenic sterilization in Alberta, 1928-1972. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History = Bulletin Canadien d’Histoire De La Médecine, 31(1), 143-163. https://doi.org/10.3138/cbmh.31.1.143
  • Stote, K. (2012). The coercive sterilization of aboriginal women in canada. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 36(3), 117-150.https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.36.3.7280728r6479j650

Season 2- Episode 2:“The Husband Stitch: More Than an Extra Suture”

Season 2- Episode 3: Strings Attached: The Tale of the Dalkon Shield IUD 

Music was provided by Mobygartis; the tracks used were “Ana”, “Lily” and “Spaired” 

  • Baker, L. (2001). Control and the Dalkon Shield. Violence Against Women, 7(11), 1303–1317. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778010122183874
  • Bougie, O., & Singh, S. S. (2016). Dalkon Shield: Forgotten but not yet gone. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jogc.2016.04.088 
  • Loring, M., & Isaacson, K. (2015). Intra-abdominal Dalkon Shield IUD: lost for over 30 years. Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, 22(1), 4–5.
  • Maguire, K., Morrell, K. M., Westhoff, C., & Davis, A. R. (2014). Accuracy of providers’ assessment of pain during intrauterine device insertion. Contraception, 89(1), 22–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2013.09.008 
  • Pendergast, P., & Hl, H. (1986b). The Dalkon Shield in perspective. PubMed, 5(1), 35–44. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3515100 
  • Roepke, C., & Schaff, E. A. (2014). Long Tail Strings: Impact of the Dalkon Shield 40 years later. Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 04(16), 996–1005.  https://doi.org/10.4236/ojog.2014.416140 
  • Tone, A. (2001). Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America. Hill and Wang.

 Season 2- Episode 4: Fertility Fraud – How Genetic Testing Uncovered Decades of Malpractice
 

Season 2- Episode 5: Caffeinated Conceptions: Brewing Conversations on the Designer Baby 

  • Boardman, F. (2019). Human genome editing and the identity politics of genetic disability. National Library of Medicine. 10.1007/s12687-019-00437-4
  • Braude, P., & Johnson, M. (2019). Reflections on 40 years of IVF. BJOG : An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 126(2), 135-137. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.15513
  • Gonzales, E. (2019). Why Kim Kardashian is using a different surrogate for her fourth child. Harpers Bazaar. https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a25747609/why-kim-kardashian-is-using-a-different-surrogate/
  • Hercher, L. (2018). Designer babies aren’t futuristic. They’re already here. MIT technology review.https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/10/22/139478/are-we-designing-inequality-into-our-genes/
  • Hercher, L. (2021). A New Era of Designer Babies May Be Based on Overhyped Science. SCI AM.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-era-of-designer-babies-may-be-based-on-overhyped-science/
  • Kirkpatrick, E. (2022). Jennifer Aniston Shares Her “Challenging Road” with IVF and Trying to Get Pregnant. Vanityfair. https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/11/jennifer-aniston-ivf-pregnancy-journey-zero-regrets-not-having-kids-allure-magazine-cover
  • Lau, P.L. (2023). Evolved Eugenics and Reinforcement of “Othering”: Renewed Ethico-Legal Perspectives of Genome Editing in Reproduction. Biotech. https://doi.org/10.3390/biotech12030051
  • Mann, D. (2023, March 22). New technique 80% effective in selecting a baby’s gender. Medical Xpress – medical research advances and health news. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-technique-effective-baby-gender.html
  • Moayeri, S. (2024). The future of fertility: Ai Technology in IVF. The Future of Fertility: AI Technology in IVF: OC Fertility® + OC Biogenix®: Fertility Clinic. https://www.ocfertility.com/blog/the-future-of-fertility-ai-technology-in-ivf
  • Parenthood, P. (2024). The history & impact of planned parenthood. Planned Parenthood.https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/our-history (2014). Eugenics. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/eugenics/
  • PR Newswire. (2019). Celebrity Candor Draws Attention To Secondary Infertility: Difficulty in conceiving a second child is more common than is generally acknowledged. Dr. Mark Trolice of Fertility CARE: The IVF Center emphasizes that secondary infertility patients are not alone and should not be made to feel that way–especially by their doctors. ProQuest. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2290915359?accountid=14656&pq-origsite=summon&sourcetype=Wire%20Feeds
  • Pawson, C. (2024, February 23). B.C. to pay for 1 round of in-vitro fertilization starting in April 2025 | CBC News. CBCnews. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-budget-2024-2025-in-vitro-covered-by-province-1.7122856#:~:text=As%20part%20of%20its%202024,fertilization%20beginning%20April%201%2C%202025.
  • Schaefer Riley, N. (2015). Designer babies’ are an unregulated reality. New York Post.https://nypost.com/2015/07/05/designer-babies-are-an-unregulated-reality/
  • Trolice, M. (2020). Celebrity Couples Choosing “Designer Babies” Hints at Growing Trend in 2020. Cision PR web. https://www.prweb.com/releases/celebrity-couples-choosing-designer-babies-hints-at-growing-trend-in-2020-881737694.html
  • Yuzpe, A. A. (2019). A brief overview of the history of in vitro fertilization in canada. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada, 41, S334-S336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jogc.2019.08.020
  • Zimmer, C. (2018, December 1). Genetically modified people are walking among us. The New York Times.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/sunday-review/crispr-china-babies-gene-editing.html

Season 2- Episode 6: Watching the Womb: What the Alabama Supreme Court Ruling Means for Personhood and Privacy 

  • Bellware, K., & Javaid, M. (2024, February 23). Third Ala. IVF clinic halts operation after state high court ruling. Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02/22/third-alabama-ivf-clinic-pauses-treatm ent/
  • Chang, A., Janse, A. M., & Kenin, J. (2024, February 21). How Alabama’s ruling that frozen embryos are “children” could impact IVF. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2024/02/21/1232742485/alabama-supreme-court-frozen-embryos-ivf-in -vitro-fertilization
  • Chesak, J. (2024, February 26). Global perspectives on the Alabama ruling, IVF and when cells become a person. Retrieved February 27, 2024, from https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240226-what-is-an-embryo-global-medical-definition-of-personhood-ivf-ruling
  • Jang, T. H., Park, S. C., Yang, J. H., Kim, J. Y., Seok, J. H., Park, U. S., Choi, C. W., Lee, S. R., & Han, J. (2017). Cryopreservation and its clinical applications. Integrative Medicine Research, 6(1), 12–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imr.2016.12.001
  • Olszynko-Gryn, J.(2023). A woman’s right to know: Pregnancy testing in twentieth-century Britain. The MIT Press. https://go.exlibris.link/WM4vtdKJ
  • Maxouris, C. (2024, February 20.). Alabama embryo ruling: State Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are children. Impacts could be devastating, critics warn | CNN. Retrieved February 27, 2024, from https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/20/us/alabama-embryo-law-ruling-supreme-court/index.html Matthiesen, S. (2021). Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade. In Reproduction Reconceived. University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520970441
  • Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. (2023, September 1). In vitro fertilization (IVF). Mayo Clinic. https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/in-vitro-fertilization/about/pac-20384716#:~:te xt=Egg-retrieval%20 technique text=During%20this%20 procedure%2C%20an%20 ultras
  • Paul, Marilyn S., Berger, Roni, Blyth, Eric, & Frith, Lucy (2010). Relinquishing frozen embryos for the conception by infertile couples. Families, Systems & Health, 28(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0020002
  • Sable, D. (2024). Opinion: The Alabama IVF ruling uses faux scientific language to justify a religious position. STAT. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2930008465?sourcetype=Trade%20Journals
  • Sable, D. (2024). Legislating Mandatory Malpractice. Medium. https://dbsable.medium.com/legislating-mandatory-malpractice-9a004aa6f65f

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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