Who gets to know?
A change in who can obtain information can change a relation of power. These records examine design and authority from different positions. Read the distinctions between a technical invention, a professional practice and a political argument.
An editorial comparison of works, not a documented lineage. Specialist passage review pending.
Begin with the design contribution: an existing laboratory process became a kit usable at home. Distinguish the kit from the underlying hormone test.
What changed when knowledge could be obtained privately?
- Predictor pregnancy test design prototype, Smithsonian collection record
- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History. Predictor Pregnancy Test Design Prototype, object nmah_1803285.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.
- Lord, Alexandra. Antibodies Are a Girl's Best Friend. National Museum of American History, 2017.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.
- Olszynko-Gryn, Jesse. Predictor: The First Home Pregnancy Test. Journal of British Studies, 2021.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.
- Crane, Margaret M. Diagnostic Test Device. US Patent 3,579,306, filed 22 January 1969, issued 18 May 1971.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.
2. Nawal El Saadawi
Read a physician and writer who challenged institutions claiming authority over women’s bodies. Her political argument is a different kind of source from a patent.
Who is entitled to describe what happens to a body?
- El Saadawi, Nawal. The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World. Zed Books, 1980.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.
- El Saadawi, Nawal. Walking Through Fire: A Life of Nawal El Saadawi. Zed Books, 2002.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.
3. Trota of Salerno
Notice how manuscript scholarship separates a historical practitioner from texts later assembled under a shared name. Missing certainty should remain visible.
How do we know whose work we are reading?
- Green, Monica H. The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.
- Green, Monica H. Making Women's Medicine Masculine. Oxford University Press, 2008.Bibliographic reference. Consult the named edition through a library or publisher.
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