Predictor : the first home pregnancy test

Olszynko-Gryn, Jesse (2020) Predictor : the first home pregnancy test. Journal of British Studies, 59 (3). pp. 638-642. ISSN 0021-9371 (https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2020.70)

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Abstract

This essay uses Predictor, the first home pregnancy test, to reexamine the doctor-patient relationship in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, a tumultuous period associated with permissiveness, women's liberation, and the erosion of medical authority. It shows how the rise of self-testing contributed to a realignment of the power dynamics among women, doctors, and pharmacists. It argues that the humble home pregnancy test kit merits a place—alongside the birth control pill and abortion law reform—in histories of health consumerism and reproductive choice in the twentieth century.

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	78330
  Dates:	Date Event 24 July 2020 Published 2 August 2019 Accepted
  Subjects:	History General and Old World > Great Britain
  Department:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > History
  Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
  Date deposited:	29 Oct 2021 12:50
  Last modified:	12 Dec 2024 10:12
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/78330