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Title:
Breathing race into the machine : the surprising career of the spirometer from plantation to genetics / Lundy Braun.
Author:
Braun, Lundy, author.
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Call Number:
RC773 .B73 2014
Added Uniform Title:
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.
ISBN:
9780816683574

9780816683598
Physical Description:
xxix, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
General Note:
"Portions of chapters 1 and 2 were previously published as "Spirometry, Measurement, and Race in the Nineteenth Century," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 60 (2005): 135-169."
Contents:
Introduction: Measuring vital capacity -- "Inventing" the spirometer: working class bodies in Victorian England -- Black lungs and white lungs: the science of white supremacy in the nineteenth-century United States -- The professionalization of physical culture: making and measuring whiteness -- Progress and race: vitality in turn-of-the century Britain -- Globalizing spirometry: the "racial factor" in scientific medicine -- Adjudicating disability in the industrial worker -- Diagnosing silicosis: physiological testing in South African gold mines -- Epilogue: how race rakes root.
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