Dr. Lauren MacIvor Thompson studies the intersections of American medicine, law, and women’s health in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is an assistant professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University and serves as a faculty fellow at the Georgia State University College of Law’s Center for Law, Health, & Society. Her book, Women’s Bodies, Doctors’ Rights: The Politics of Birth Control in America, is under advance contract with Rutgers University Press. Her new research focuses broadly on the history of state-federal pharmaceutical and licensing regulation.