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020 _a9781452940991
020 _a1452940991
020 _z9780816683574 (hc : alk. paper)
020 _z9780816683598 (pb : alk. paper)
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aRC773
082 0 0 _a616.2/44
_223
100 1 _aBraun, Lundy,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aBreathing race into the machine
_h[electronic resource] :
_bthe surprising career of the spirometer from plantation to genetics /
_cLundy Braun.
260 _aMinneapolis :
_bUniversity of Minnesota Press,
_c[2014]
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (p. )
500 _a"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."
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _a"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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 2 2 _aRacism
_xhistory.
650 2 2 _aPneumoconiosis
_xetiology.
650 2 2 _aLung
_xphysiology.
650 2 2 _aHistory, 20th Century.
650 2 2 _aHistory, 19th Century.
650 2 2 _aEuropean Continental Ancestry Group.
650 2 2 _aAfrican Continental Ancestry Group.
650 1 2 _aSpirometry
_xinstrumentation.
650 1 2 _aSpirometry
_xhistory.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
730 0 _aJournal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781452940991/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c30029
_d30029