View:
- no detail
- some detail
- full detail
Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
Lundy Braun
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816683574
- eISBN:
- 9781452949185
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816683574.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
The spirometer is used routinely to diagnose respiratory disease in specialist and primary care settings, although most patients probably do not recognize the name of the device. An important feature ... More
“Inventing” the Spirometer Working-Class Bodies in Victorian England
Lundy Braun
in Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816683574
- eISBN:
- 9781452949185
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816683574.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Chapter 1 focuses on mid-nineteenth century Britain when John Hutchinson published his studies on the spirometer and exhibited the instrument and his data to elite London societies. Hutchinson was ... More
Black Lungs and White Lungs: The Science of White Supremacy in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Lundy Braun
in Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816683574
- eISBN:
- 9781452949185
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816683574.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Chapter 2 explores the uptake of the spirometer in the U.S. where it was used to study racial difference in a large anthropometric study at the end of the Civil War. While Frederick Hoffman drew on ... More
The Professionalization of Physical Culture: Making and Measuring Whiteness
Lundy Braun
in Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816683574
- eISBN:
- 9781452949185
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816683574.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Chapter 3 examines the use of spirometer in physical education at U.S. college and universities and its role in monitoring and marking Anglo-Saxon manhood and womanhood.
Progress and Race: Vitality in Turn-of-the-Century Britain
Lundy Braun
in Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816683574
- eISBN:
- 9781452949185
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816683574.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Chapter 4 examines the spirometer in physical education in mid-nineteenth century Britain and its later use by Francis Galton as part of a test for “bodily efficiency” that he considered useful in ... More
Globalizing Spirometry: The “Racial Factor” in Scientific Medicine
Lundy Braun
in Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816683574
- eISBN:
- 9781452949185
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816683574.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Chapter 5 tracks the spirometer as it moved among the U.S., Britain, and South Africa at a moment when users recognized the pressing need to distinguish between “normal” and “abnormal” lung capacity.
Adjudicating Disability in the Industrial Worker
Lundy Braun
in Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816683574
- eISBN:
- 9781452949185
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816683574.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Chapter 6 focuses on a particular site of technological innovation in Britain after the Second World War. The Pneumoconiosis Research Unit was established to investigate disease among coal miners. ... More
Diagnosing Silicosis: Physiological Testing in South African Gold Mines
Lundy Braun
in Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816683574
- eISBN:
- 9781452949185
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816683574.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Chapter 7 centers on the use of the spirometer in South Africa to adjudicate disability claims among gold miners, but only in whites. Black miners at the time were largely excluded from monitoring ... More
How Race Takes Root
Lundy Braun
in Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816683574
- eISBN:
- 9781452949185
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816683574.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
The Epilogue brings the topic up to the present.
View:
- no detail
- some detail
- full detail
