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Author:

Braun, Lundy, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xxix, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Spirometry--History.
Lungs--History.--History.
Lungs--Social aspects.--Social aspects.
Blacks--Diseases.
Racism in medicine.
Spirometry--History.
Spirometry--instrumentation.
African Continental Ancestry Group.
European Continental Ancestry Group.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
Lung--physiology.
Pneumoconiosis--etiology.
Racism--History.

Other Titles:

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.

Notes:

"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.

Contents:

Introduction: Measuring vital capacity -- "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 -- The professionalization of physical culture: making and measuring whiteness -- 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 -- Epilogue: how race rakes root.

ISBN:

081668359X (pb : alk. paper)
9780816683598 (pb : alk. paper)
0816683573 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816683574 (hc : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)856518433

LCCN:

2013032948

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)