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CATEGORIES:Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of
  Science
SUMMARY:Pregnancy testing before DIY: rethinking the patie
 nt-doctor-laboratory relationship - Jesse Olszynko
 -Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Sci
 ence)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20141016T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20141016T180000
UID:TALK54693AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/54693
DESCRIPTION:Pregnancy testing has never been easier. For count
 less women\, the home pregnancy test\, a ubiquitou
 s diagnostic tool/retail product\, mediates betwee
 n the uncertainty of a missed period and the decis
 ion either to prepare for motherhood or to termina
 te an unwanted pregnancy. Yet\, although home test
 ing has transformed the experience of pregnancy as
  much as ultrasound or amniocentesis\, very little
  is known about its history. This talk will tell t
 he story of laboratory pregnancy testing in Britai
 n before the first DIY tests of the 1970s. It will
  argue that the market for a then controversial di
 agnostic service was sustained less by imposed med
 icalisation or the managerial state than by the en
 trepreneurial testers and consumers who helped to 
 create and maintain demand. It will also rethink t
 he patient-doctor relationship by placing routine 
 testing more centrally in our historical understan
 ding of modern laboratory medicine.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philoso
 phy of Science
CONTACT:Richard Staley
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