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SUMMARY:Pregnancy testing before DIY: rethinking the patient-doctor-labora
 tory relationship - Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philoso
 phy of Science)
DTSTART:20141016T153000Z
DTEND:20141016T170000Z
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CONTACT:Richard Staley
DESCRIPTION:Pregnancy testing has never been easier. For countless women\,
  the home pregnancy test\, a ubiquitous diagnostic tool/retail product\, m
 ediates between the uncertainty of a missed period and the decision either
  to prepare for motherhood or to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Yet\, al
 though home testing has transformed the experience of pregnancy as much as
  ultrasound or amniocentesis\, very little is known about its history. Thi
 s talk will tell the story of laboratory pregnancy testing in Britain befo
 re the first DIY tests of the 1970s. It will argue that the market for a t
 hen controversial diagnostic service was sustained less by imposed medical
 isation or the managerial state than by the entrepreneurial testers and co
 nsumers who helped to create and maintain demand. It will also rethink the
  patient-doctor relationship by placing routine testing more centrally in 
 our historical understanding of modern laboratory medicine.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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