Breathing race into the machine : the surprising career of the spirometer from plantation to genetics
- Author/Creator:
- Braun, Lundy, author
- Publication/Creation:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Breathing race into the machine : the surprising career of the spirometer from plantation to genetics / Lundy Braun
- Related/Included Titles:
- Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.
Subjects/Genre
- Genre:
- Electronic books
- Subjects:
- Spirometry--History
Lungs--Dust diseases--History
Lungs--Dust diseases--Social aspects
Spirometry--history
Spirometry--instrumentation
Black People
White People
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Lung--physiology
Pneumoconiosis--etiology
Racism--history
Racism
Description/Summary
- Table of 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.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource
- 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."
- Local Note:
- Available to current Emory University students, faculty and staff.
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- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990034041880302486
- ISBN:
- 9781452940991 (electronic bk.)
1452940991 (electronic bk.)
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