Book Launch: A Woman's Right to Know by Jesse Olszynko-Gryn

Cambridge Reproduction invites you to a launch event to mark the publication of historian Jesse Olszynko-Gryn's book, A Woman's Right to Know: Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain (MIT Press, 2023).

On Monday 10 June the author will be in conversation at the Whipple Museum with Catherine Aiken (Obstetrics & Gynaecology, CUH), Lucy Delap (History, Cambridge), and Claire Jones (University of Kent). Nick Hopwood (HPS, Cambridge) will chair.

The first in-depth history of pregnancy testing for any country, A Woman's Right to Know reconstructs the transformation of an esoteric laboratory tool into a commonplace of everyday life. It shows that the rise of pregnancy testing has had significant—and not always expected—impacts, including in how we conceive of pregnancy itself.
 

Advance praise includes: “Eminently readable, packed with fascinating, surprising, inspiring, and occasionally appalling stories, A Woman's Right to Know excavates the history of pregnancy testing with verve and nuanced insight."

This free, in-person event is supported by Cambridge Reproduction, the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Wellcome. Light refreshments will be served.

Registration is not required but please reserve a spot to help keep track of numbers for catering