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Breathing race into the machine : the surprising career of the spirometer from plantation to genetics /

In the antebellum South, plantation physicians used a new medical device-the spirometer-to show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employing the spirometer appeared...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Braun, Lundy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo