Evaluation of a 'do-it-yourself' pregnancy test.

Baker, Lawrence D.; Yert, Louise W.; Chase, Maggie; Dale, Esther H.

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“…The remaining 10 articles (Table 1) were then analyzed and 5 more were excluded. 5,16,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] The additional exclusions were because the study had no control group of nonpregnant patients, 5 there were insufficient data for determining sensitivity and specificity, 18,19 the kit was no longer available because of its demonstrated poor performance, 20 or the study had an inadequate sample size. 21…”

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Diagnostic Efficiency of Home Pregnancy Test Kits: A Meta-analysis

Bastian¹

1998

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Diagnostic Efficiency of Home Pregnancy Test Kits: A Meta-analysis

Bastian¹

1998

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“…Just four months later, in December 1972, the FDA took the drastic measure of recalling Ova II, stating that the tests were 'inaccurate, unreliable, and prone to give false results' (Lyons, 1972). A spokesperson from Faraday Laboratories countered that the tests were 'accurate and reliable when used as directed', but agreed to recall the kits, though the spokesperson questioned the jurisdiction of the FDA to regulate the product premarket because it was not a drug (Baker et al, 1976;Lyons, 1972). Perhaps further preventing FDA action was that under the law at that time, the FDA could recall (postmarket) 'harmful or ineffective' devices, which were defined as 'instruments, apparatus, and contrivances, intended for the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals' (USC, 1972: 21 USC §321(h), emphasis added).…”

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“…On a practical level, they judged the tests 'convenient for the user' and 'less expensive than laboratory tests' (Hunt, 1975: 122). Earlier diagnosis could be possible, making possible both earlier prenatal care and earlier abortions (Baker et al, 1976).…”

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Bringing the pregnancy test home from the hospital

Robinson

2016

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This paper explores the settlement process of one of the most common home diagnostic tools currently in use, the home pregnancy test. The controversial new device appeared to threaten the jurisdiction of both doctors and Food and Drug Administration regulations, while it aligned with the women's health movement's goals. But this study finds a more nuanced narrative: one of boundaries and positions that at once were blurry, later shifted, and were ultimately aligned without compromising the credibility of doctors or the legal system. To understand this process, the roles of court decisions and regulations are explained by stages of juris-technical accordance. In this case, rather than restricting technological innovation, legal innovation provided pathways for widespread acceptance of the home pregnancy test by various groups. As more tools move from expert users to layperson users, this paper demonstrates the utility of examining existing juris-technical assemblages as we consider the future of self-monitoring and self-diagnosis.

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“…One of the expected advantages of home pregnancy tests was "allowing a woman to be the first person to know that she is pregnant" (Baker et al 1976). This view ignores the fact that in the past women were the first to know, albeit via different means.…”

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The Home Pregnancy Test: A Feminist Technology?

Layne¹

2009

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In the United States, one of the primary ways that the feminist movement has worked to overcome gender bias has been through changes in the law and public policy. Technologies are "forms of legislation" (Winner 1977) that have not yet received the level of feminist attention they deserve. 1 As Winner observed, "Just as surely as. .. the laws and regulations of government, technological design is a place where some basic decisions are made about the identities and relationships, power and status, life chances and limits upon these chances" (2002, 1). Hence, it is important to work toward the achievement of feminist technologies (Layne, forthcoming). In this essay, I examine the home pregnancy test as a candidate for feminist technology. Home pregnancy tests have been promoted and greeted as libratory for women. They are relatively low cost and easy for women in the United States to obtain and use. In addition, they are noninvasive, pose no apparent health risks, and boast high levels of accuracy. In other words, they appear to be the very type of technology advocated by the women's health movement and by science and technology studies scholars who seek more democratic design and use of technoscience. Yet examination of ninety-two first-person accounts of use posted between 2003 and 2005 as part of a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) project on the history of the test, accounts published on a pregnancy website, and the newsletters of two U.S. pregnancy loss support organizations spanning the period of 1981-2004 suggest that the presumed benefits of this technology are not so clear. 2 In fact, there are a number of hidden costs that come into relief when we examine how and by whom they are used. I conclude that home pregnancy tests do not offer women the benefits they purport to and, in fact, in some ways they disempower women by deskilling them, devaluing their self-knowledge, and enticing them to squander their buying power on frivolous consumer products. Despite all this, home pregnancy tests may be of value to some women in some circumstances, and thus, these information technologies should be improved to better serve women.

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Evaluation of a 'do-it-yourself' pregnancy test.

Cited by 9 publications

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Diagnostic Efficiency of Home Pregnancy Test Kits: A Meta-analysis

Diagnostic Efficiency of Home Pregnancy Test Kits: A Meta-analysis

Bringing the pregnancy test home from the hospital

The Home Pregnancy Test: A Feminist Technology?

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