Tools
Pregnancy test
- Author
- Weingarten, Karen, 1980-
- Title
- Pregnancy test / Karen Weingarten
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023
- Description
- xii, 156 : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Series
- Object Lessons
- Notes
- Object Lessons is a book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Series editors: Ian Bogost and Christopher Schaberg.
- Contents
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- Designing the home pregnancy test
- Hormones
- Urine and blood
- The stick
- Tell me doctor
- The psychological torture of a beautiful woman
- There is no pregnancy without the pregnancy test
- The science fiction of pregnancy testing.
- Summary
- In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in the privacy of their own home that gave them a yes or no answer. That answer had the power to change the course of their reproductive lives, and it chipped away at a paternalistic culture that gave gynecologists - the majority of whom were men - control over information about women's bodies. However, while science so often promises clear-cut answers, the reality of pregnancy is often much messier. "Pregnancy Test" explores how the pregnancy test has not always lived up to the fantasy that more information equals more knowledge. -- from book jacket.
- ISBN
- 9781501376542