Breathing race into the machine
Braun, Lundy,
Breathing race into the machine the surprising career of the spirometer from plantation to genetics / [electronic resource] : Lundy Braun. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (p. ) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
"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."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
9781452940991 1452940991
Racism--history.
Pneumoconiosis--etiology.
Lung--physiology.
History, 20th Century.
History, 19th Century.
European Continental Ancestry Group.
African Continental Ancestry Group.
Spirometry--instrumentation.
Spirometry--history.
Electronic books.
RC773
616.2/44
Breathing race into the machine the surprising career of the spirometer from plantation to genetics / [electronic resource] : Lundy Braun. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (p. ) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
"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."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
9781452940991 1452940991
Racism--history.
Pneumoconiosis--etiology.
Lung--physiology.
History, 20th Century.
History, 19th Century.
European Continental Ancestry Group.
African Continental Ancestry Group.
Spirometry--instrumentation.
Spirometry--history.
Electronic books.
RC773
616.2/44