Would you be willing to play games to get out of debt? Would you sell your organs?

Teetotalers in the early British temperance movement signed temperance pledges like those in The Livesey Collection on JSTOR.

These early temperance movement lantern slides from The Livesey Collection want you to abstain from drinking alcohol. Happy New Year!

But will it make a difference for cleaning up pollution?

Scholars! Feeling blue? Read on.

Hildegard von Bingen wrote medical texts describing how to prepare abortifacients.

Un análisis químico de una área puede determinar cuánta contaminación hay en el aire. Pero hay un método mucho menos costoso que podría ayudar a las comunidades más pobres.

A chemical analysis of an area can find out how much pollution is in the air. But there's a much less expensive method that could help poorer communities.

One scholar chronicles how communities have banded together to help each other with abortion care even when it’s against the law.

Historically, the Supreme Court has held that forgoing vaccines is a threat to public health and therefore beyond the bounds of liberty.