Lauren MacIvor Thompson

Dr. Lauren MacIvor Thompson is a historian of the intersections of American medicine, law, and women’s health in the late nineteenth and early twentieth 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.