A Woman's Right to Know: Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain

Olszynko-Gryn, Jesse

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2023-12-12
  • 售價: $2,180
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$2,071
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 424
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262544393
  • ISBN-13: 9780262544399
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商品描述

The history of pregnancy testing, and how it transformed from an esoteric laboratory tool to a commonplace of everyday life.

Pregnancy testing has never been easier. Waiting on one side or the other of the bathroom door for a "positive" or "negative" result has become a modern ritual and rite of passage. Today, the ubiquitous home pregnancy test is implicated in personal decisions and public debates about all aspects of reproduction, from miscarriage and abortion to the "biological clock" and IVF. Yet, only three generations ago, women typically waited not minutes but months to find out whether they were pregnant. A Woman's Right to Know tells, for the first time, the story of pregnancy testing--one of the most significant and least studied technologies of reproduction.

Focusing on Britain from around 1900 to the present day, Jesse Olszynko-Gryn shows how demand shifted from doctors to women, and then goes further to explain the remarkable transformation of pregnancy testing from an obscure laboratory service to an easily accessible (though fraught) tool for every woman. Lastly, the book reflects on resources the past might contain for the present and future of sexual and reproductive health.

Solidly researched and compellingly argued, Olszynko-Gryn demonstrates that the rise of pregnancy testing has had significant--and not always expected--impact and has led to changes in the ways in which we conceive of pregnancy itself.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

懷孕測試的歷史,以及它如何從一種深奧的實驗室工具轉變為日常生活中的普遍現象。

懷孕測試從未如此簡單。在浴室門的一側等待「陽性」或「陰性」結果,已成為現代的儀式和成年禮。如今,無處不在的家庭懷孕測試與個人決策和公共辯論息息相關,涉及流產、墮胎、生物鐘以及試管嬰兒等各個生殖方面。然而,僅僅三代人之前,女性通常需要等待的不是幾分鐘,而是幾個月才能知道自己是否懷孕。《A Woman's Right to Know》首次講述了懷孕測試的故事——這是生殖技術中最重要且最少研究的技術之一。

該書聚焦於1900年左右至今的英國,Jesse Olszynko-Gryn展示了需求如何從醫生轉向女性,並進一步解釋了懷孕測試從一項晦澀的實驗室服務轉變為每位女性都能輕易獲得(儘管充滿挑戰)的工具的驚人變化。最後,這本書反思了過去可能對當前和未來的性與生殖健康所包含的資源。

Olszynko-Gryn的研究扎實且論證引人入勝,顯示懷孕測試的興起對我們對懷孕本身的認知方式產生了重大且不總是意料之中的影響。

作者簡介

Jesse Olszynko-Gryn is head of the Oral History and Experimental Media Lab at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Jesse Olszynko-Gryn 是位於柏林的馬克斯·普朗克科學史研究所口述歷史與實驗媒體實驗室的負責人。