Breathing Race into the Machine : The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics /

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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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Autor principal: Braun, Lundy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Spirometry.
Lungs > Dust diseases > Social aspects.
Lungs > Dust diseases.
MEDICAL > History.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Spirometrie > Histoire.
Racism > history
Pneumoconiosis > etiology
Lung > physiology
History, 20th Century
History, 19th Century
Whites
Blacks
Spirometry > instrumentation
Spirometry > history
Lungs > Dust diseases > History.
Spirometry > History.
History.
Electronic books.
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Breathing race into the machine : the surprising career of the spirometer from plantation to genetics /
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Publicado 2014
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Breathing race into the machine : the surprising career of the spirometer from plantation to genetics /
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