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Breathing race into the machine : the surprising career of the spirometer from plantation to genetics
- Title
- Breathing race into the machine : the surprising career of the spirometer from plantation to genetics / Lundy Braun.
- Author
- Braun, Lundy
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
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Details
- Description
- pages; cm
- Uniform Title
- Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.
- Subjects
- African Continental Ancestry Group
- Spirometry > History
- Pneumoconiosis > etiology
- Lung > physiology
- History, 19th Century
- Racism in medicine
- Lungs > Dust diseases > Social aspects
- Racism > history
- Lungs > Dust diseases > History
- Blacks > Diseases
- European Continental Ancestry Group
- Spirometry > instrumentation
- History, 20th Century
- Spirometry > history
- 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."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "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 -- Filling the lungs with air: the rise of physical culture in America -- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 14-382
- ISBN
- 9780816683574 (hc : alk. paper)
- 0816683573 (hc : alk. paper)
- 9780816683598 (pb : alk. paper)
- 081668359X (pb : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013032948
- OCLC
- 856518433
- Author
- Braun, Lundy, author.
- Title
- Breathing race into the machine : the surprising career of the spirometer from plantation to genetics / Lundy Braun.
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Title
- Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 14-382