Heather Munro Prescott
Biographic Data
| ID | 537110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Munro Prescott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather Munro |
| FAMILY NAME | Prescott |
| SIGNATURE | PRESCOTT H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Connecticut State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2994-3454 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Limits of Griswold v. Connecticut
My co-panelists have talked extensively about the personal and legal history of Griswold v. Connecticut. I will build on this by looking at the social history of the decision and its impact on the lives of young people like the ones I teach at Central Connecticut State University. In addition to writing about Griswold v. Connecticut, I use this case in my U.S. history classes to illustrate changes in the laws regulating human sexuality. Because I…
Pushing the Cause of Women in Medicine Ahead: Connecticut's Women Physicians during the First World War
At the 1918 annual meeting of the Medical Women's Society of New York State, President Emily Dunning Barringer declared, “The war has pushed the cause of the woman physician ahead many years. In a twinkling, so to speak, opportunity for development may and will come which in the ordinary progress of events would have taken long years of hard work to bring about.”1 As the quote from Barringer suggests, the war came at a critical period for medical…
A Right to Ourselves: Women's Suffrage and the Birth Control Movement
The suffrage and birth control movements are often treated separately in historical scholarship. This essay brings together new research to demonstrate their close connections. Many suffragists became active in the birth control movement just before and after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The roots of suffrage arguments were deeply embedded in the same ideas that were foundational to the birth control movement: bodily freedom a…
Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth
In recent years, home birth has experienced a renaissance. A number of celebrities, including Demi Moore, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Cindy Crawford, and Brazilian supermodel Giselle Bundchen, have chosen to have their babies at home rather than in the hospital. The actress Ricki Lake's 2008 documentary, The Business of Being Born, contributed to the growing popularity of home birth in the twenty-first century. Wendy Kline's Coming Home puts th…
We Must Not Allow a Contraception Gap: Planned Parenthood's Campaign for New Birth Control and Feminist Health Activism in the 1990s
In 1990, Planned Parenthood Federation of America launched a nationwide public relations drive called the Campaign for New Birth Control in reaction to reports that Americans were being deprived of contraceptives available in other parts of the world. This article will use Planned Parenthood's Campaign for New Birth Control as a case study of how reproductive rights activists organized around emerging contraceptive technologies in the late twenti…
Johanna Schoen. Abortion after Roe
This is a depressing time to be an abortion advocate. The past thirty years have seen a gradual erosion of women’s access to abortion services and an escalation of vituperative anti-abortion rhetoric and violence against abortion providers. How did we get to this dismal state of affairs? In Abortion after Roe , Johanna Schoen answers this question by describing the events that shaped abortion care since the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v.…
Laura Dawes. Childhood Obesity in America: Biography of an Epidemic
This timely book arrives after decades of escalating panic about the growing number of overweight children and adults in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in teenagers over the past 30 years. As of 2012, more than one-third of children and adolescents fit the body weight index categories for “overweight” or “obese.” Laura Dawes argues …
Active Bodies: A History of Women’s Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America by Martha H. Verbrugge (review)
Reviewed by: Active Bodies: A History of Women’s Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America by Martha H. Verbrugge Heather Munro Prescott Martha H. Verbrugge. Active Bodies: A History of Women’s Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xi + 391 pp. Ill. $55.00 (978-0-19-516879-2). The release of this book could not be more timely: in 2012, the United States celebrated the fortieth anniversary …
The Pill at Fifty: Scientific Commemoration and the Politics of American Memory
This article uses coverage of the fiftieth anniversary of the Pill as an example of what Richard Hirsh describes as the "real world" role of historians of technology. It explores how the presentation of historical topics on the world wide web has complicated how the history of technology is conveyed to the public. The article shows that that the Pill is especially suited to demonstrating the public role of historians of technology because, as the…
Organic Public Geographies: “Making the Connection”
A new field of “public geographies” is taking shape (Fuller 2008) in geography's mainstream journals. While much is “traditional”, with intellectuals disseminating academic research via non- academic outlets (Castree 2006; Mitchell 2008; Oslender 2007), less visible is the “organic” work and its “more involved intellectualizing, pursued through working with area-based or single-interest groups, in which the process itself may be the outcome” (War…
Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine
Using the Student Body: College and University Students as Research Subjects in the United States during the Twentieth Century
Journal Article Using the Student Body: College and University Students as Research Subjects in the United States during the Twentieth Century Get access Heather Munro Prescott Heather Munro Prescott Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 57, Issue 1, 1 January 2002, Pages 3–38, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/57.1.3 Published: 01 January 2002
Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the Twentieth Century (review)
One of the central issues in the presidential campaign of 2000 was the debate over shifts in American moral standards over the past thirty years. Nowhere is this debate more contentious than in arguments over the best way to protect the nation's young people from sexually explicit material in the media and in the classroom. In Teaching Sex, Jeffrey Moran argues that contemporary debates regarding sex education "have failed to look beyond the imme…
The White Plague Goes to College: Tuberculosis Prevention Programs in Colleges and Universities, 1920-1960
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 74, Number 4, Winter 2000
A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine
Parents have known since time immemorial, and social scientists have agreed since the turn of the 20th century, that adolescents are a people unto themselves - a distinct developmental category. Yet it was not until the 1950s that a medical specialty specifically for teenagers came into being. In this volume, Heather Munro Prescott shows how the mid-20th-century emergence of adolescent medicine resulted from a combination of social changes that r…
Anorexia nervosa: "The historical and cultural specificity: Fallacious theories and tenacious "facts
Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research
Women, Health, and Medicine in America: A Historical Handbook . Rima D. Apple
Organic Public Geographies: “Making the Connection”
A new field of “public geographies” is taking shape (Fuller 2008) in geography's mainstream journals. While much is “traditional”, with intellectuals disseminating academic research via non- academic outlets (Castree 2006; Mitchell 2008; Oslender 2007), less visible is the “organic” work and its “more involved intellectualizing, pursued through working with area-based or single-interest groups, in which the process itself may be the outcome” (War…
Using the Student Body: College and University Students as Research Subjects in the United States during the Twentieth Century
Journal Article Using the Student Body: College and University Students as Research Subjects in the United States during the Twentieth Century Get access Heather Munro Prescott Heather Munro Prescott Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 57, Issue 1, 1 January 2002, Pages 3–38, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/57.1.3 Published: 01 January 2002
A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine
Parents have known since time immemorial, and social scientists have agreed since the turn of the 20th century, that adolescents are a people unto themselves - a distinct developmental category. Yet it was not until the 1950s that a medical specialty specifically for teenagers came into being. In this volume, Heather Munro Prescott shows how the mid-20th-century emergence of adolescent medicine resulted from a combination of social changes that r…
Women, Health, and Medicine in America: A Historical Handbook . Rima D. Apple
Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research
Anorexia nervosa: "The historical and cultural specificity: Fallacious theories and tenacious "facts
The White Plague Goes to College: Tuberculosis Prevention Programs in Colleges and Universities, 1920-1960
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 74, Number 4, Winter 2000
A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine
Parents have known since time immemorial, and social scientists have agreed since the turn of the 20th century, that adolescents are a people unto themselves - a distinct developmental category. Yet it was not until the 1950s that a medical specialty specifically for teenagers came into being. In this volume, Heather Munro Prescott shows how the mid-20th-century emergence of adolescent medicine resulted from a combination of social changes that r…
Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the Twentieth Century (review)
One of the central issues in the presidential campaign of 2000 was the debate over shifts in American moral standards over the past thirty years. Nowhere is this debate more contentious than in arguments over the best way to protect the nation's young people from sexually explicit material in the media and in the classroom. In Teaching Sex, Jeffrey Moran argues that contemporary debates regarding sex education "have failed to look beyond the imme…
Using the Student Body: College and University Students as Research Subjects in the United States during the Twentieth Century
Journal Article Using the Student Body: College and University Students as Research Subjects in the United States during the Twentieth Century Get access Heather Munro Prescott Heather Munro Prescott Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 57, Issue 1, 1 January 2002, Pages 3–38, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/57.1.3 Published: 01 January 2002
Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine
Organic Public Geographies: “Making the Connection”
A new field of “public geographies” is taking shape (Fuller 2008) in geography's mainstream journals. While much is “traditional”, with intellectuals disseminating academic research via non- academic outlets (Castree 2006; Mitchell 2008; Oslender 2007), less visible is the “organic” work and its “more involved intellectualizing, pursued through working with area-based or single-interest groups, in which the process itself may be the outcome” (War…
Active Bodies: A History of Women’s Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America by Martha H. Verbrugge (review)
Reviewed by: Active Bodies: A History of Women’s Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America by Martha H. Verbrugge Heather Munro Prescott Martha H. Verbrugge. Active Bodies: A History of Women’s Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xi + 391 pp. Ill. $55.00 (978-0-19-516879-2). The release of this book could not be more timely: in 2012, the United States celebrated the fortieth anniversary …
The Pill at Fifty: Scientific Commemoration and the Politics of American Memory
This article uses coverage of the fiftieth anniversary of the Pill as an example of what Richard Hirsh describes as the "real world" role of historians of technology. It explores how the presentation of historical topics on the world wide web has complicated how the history of technology is conveyed to the public. The article shows that that the Pill is especially suited to demonstrating the public role of historians of technology because, as the…
Laura Dawes. Childhood Obesity in America: Biography of an Epidemic
This timely book arrives after decades of escalating panic about the growing number of overweight children and adults in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in teenagers over the past 30 years. As of 2012, more than one-third of children and adolescents fit the body weight index categories for “overweight” or “obese.” Laura Dawes argues …
Johanna Schoen. Abortion after Roe
This is a depressing time to be an abortion advocate. The past thirty years have seen a gradual erosion of women’s access to abortion services and an escalation of vituperative anti-abortion rhetoric and violence against abortion providers. How did we get to this dismal state of affairs? In Abortion after Roe , Johanna Schoen answers this question by describing the events that shaped abortion care since the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v.…
We Must Not Allow a Contraception Gap: Planned Parenthood's Campaign for New Birth Control and Feminist Health Activism in the 1990s
In 1990, Planned Parenthood Federation of America launched a nationwide public relations drive called the Campaign for New Birth Control in reaction to reports that Americans were being deprived of contraceptives available in other parts of the world. This article will use Planned Parenthood's Campaign for New Birth Control as a case study of how reproductive rights activists organized around emerging contraceptive technologies in the late twenti…
A Right to Ourselves: Women's Suffrage and the Birth Control Movement
The suffrage and birth control movements are often treated separately in historical scholarship. This essay brings together new research to demonstrate their close connections. Many suffragists became active in the birth control movement just before and after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The roots of suffrage arguments were deeply embedded in the same ideas that were foundational to the birth control movement: bodily freedom a…
Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth
In recent years, home birth has experienced a renaissance. A number of celebrities, including Demi Moore, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Cindy Crawford, and Brazilian supermodel Giselle Bundchen, have chosen to have their babies at home rather than in the hospital. The actress Ricki Lake's 2008 documentary, The Business of Being Born, contributed to the growing popularity of home birth in the twenty-first century. Wendy Kline's Coming Home puts th…
The Limits of Griswold v. Connecticut
My co-panelists have talked extensively about the personal and legal history of Griswold v. Connecticut. I will build on this by looking at the social history of the decision and its impact on the lives of young people like the ones I teach at Central Connecticut State University. In addition to writing about Griswold v. Connecticut, I use this case in my U.S. history classes to illustrate changes in the laws regulating human sexuality. Because I…
Pushing the Cause of Women in Medicine Ahead: Connecticut's Women Physicians during the First World War
At the 1918 annual meeting of the Medical Women's Society of New York State, President Emily Dunning Barringer declared, “The war has pushed the cause of the woman physician ahead many years. In a twinkling, so to speak, opportunity for development may and will come which in the ordinary progress of events would have taken long years of hard work to bring about.”1 As the quote from Barringer suggests, the war came at a critical period for medical…
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