Personal statement
I am a historian of science, technology and medicine at the University of Strathclyde. As co-lead on the internationally collaborative research project, Risky Hormones, I work with patient groups and other partners to historically investigate the contested use and regulation of medicines in pregnancy and the risk of birth defects. My first book reconstructs the remarkable transformation of pregnancy testing from an esoteric laboratory tool to a commonplace of everyday life. It is under contract with the MIT Press, for publication in 2023. I have longstanding research interests in health activism and medical film, and I recently developed a new interest in the history of face masks as embattled health technologies. I co-convene the Disability Research Group.
Professional activities
- Pregnancy testing and moral panic in permissive Britain
- Speaker
- 8/11/2021
- Filming fly eggs: time-lapse cinematography as an intermedial practice
- Speaker
- 11/9/2021
- Expert witnessing
- Consultant
- 10/5/2021
- MPhil examiner
- Examiner
- 3/2021
- Birth control in Britain before and after 'the pill'
- Speaker
- 22/1/2021
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2021
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Projects
- Risky hormones, pregnant patients and the contested science of birth defects: the rise and fall of hormone pregnancy tests in the FRG and UK, 1950-81
- Olszynko-Gryn, Jesse (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2023
- Pregnancy testing over the counter, in activism, and at home: Britain, 1970–2015
- Olszynko-Gryn, Jesse (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2015 - 01-Jan-2019
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Address
History
Lord Hope Building
Lord Hope Building
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