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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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.