Leslie Reagan is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. She specializes in the history of medicine, U.S. women's history, sexuality, and twentieth-century U.S. social history. Her current research focuses on the history of illegal abortion, the intersections between law and medicine, and breast cancer and public health. Selected publications include "'About to Meet Her Maker': Women, Doctors, Dying Declarations, and the State's Investigation of Abortion, Chicago, 1867-1940'" Journal of American History, 77, 4 (March 1991) 1240-64; "Linking Midwives and Abortion in the Progressive Era," Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Winter 1995); and When Abortion was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 (University of California Press, 1997), winner of the Outstanding Book of the Year by Choice, the President's Award from the Social Science History Association, and the Law and Society Association's James Willard Hurst Prize for Best Book in Legal History.