S2 Ep5: Mary Fissell - on abortion's long durée

For the Medical Record

In this episode, Richard and Mia talk with Mary Fissell, the Inaugural J. Mario Molina Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, about her new book, "Pushback: The 2,500-Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion." This is a great book and Mary is such a wealth of knowledge about this history.
Related Works:

• Jennifer Wright, Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
• Nicholas L. Syrett, The Trials of Madame Restell Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime
• "‘Drama of Life Before Birth’: Lennart Nilsson’s Landmark 1965 Photo Essay," Life Magazine.
• Kathleen Crowther, Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America
• Johanna Schoen, Abortion after Roe

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For the Medical Record is a podcast from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, hosted by Research Associate Richard Del Rio and Postdoctoral Fellow Mia Levenson. New episodes are released biweekly.
In these episodes, we talk to people affiliated with the Center to discuss their research within the history of medicine and the medical humanities. We ask them why their work matters, and how history and the humanities can help us to better understand debates and practices within medicine and care today.