TY  - BOOK
AU  - Braun,Lundy
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Breathing race into the machine: the surprising career of the spirometer from plantation to genetics 
SN  - 9781452940991
AV  - RC773 
U1  - 616.2/44 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Racism
KW  - history
KW  - Pneumoconiosis
KW  - etiology
KW  - Lung
KW  - physiology
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - History, 19th Century
KW  - European Continental Ancestry Group
KW  - African Continental Ancestry Group
KW  - Spirometry
KW  - instrumentation
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - "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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781452940991/
ER  -