LEADER 04049nam 2200649 450 001 9910424953503321 005 20230621141352.0 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526143167 035 $a(CKB)4100000011586238 035 $a(NjHacI)994100000011586238 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26341 035 $a(UkMaJRU)992982004619401631 035 $a(DE-B1597)660241 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526143167 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011586238 100 $a20200820h20202020 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMeasuring difference, numbering normal $esetting the standards for disability in the interwar period/$fCoreen McGuire 210 1$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d2020. 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (iv, 233 pages) $cillustrations (black and white); digital file(s) 225 1 $aDisability history 311 $a1-5261-4317-8 311 $a1-5261-4316-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Numbering normal -- 2 Measuring disability -- 3. The artificial ear and the disability data gap -- 4. The audiometer and the medicalization of hearing loss -- 5. The spirometer and the normal subjects -- 6. The respirator and the mechanization of normal breathing -- 7. Measuring ourselves -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aMeasuring difference, numbering normal provides a detailed study of the technological construction of disability by examining how the audiometer and spirometer were used to create numerical proxies for invisible and inarticulable experiences. Measurements, and their manipulation, have been underestimated as crucial historical forces motivating and guiding the way we think about disability. Using measurement technology as a lens, this book draws together several existing discussions on disability, healthcare, medical practice, embodiment and emerging medical and scientific technologies at the turn of the twentieth century. As such, this work connects several important and usually separate academic subject areas and historical specialisms. The standards embedded in instrumentation created strict but ultimately arbitrary thresholds of normalcy and abnormalcy. Considering these standards from a long historical perspective reveals how these dividing lines shifted when pushed. The central thesis of this book is that health measurements are given artificial authority if they are particularly amenable to calculability and easy measurement. These measurement processes were perpetuated and perfected in the interwar years in Britain as the previously invisible limits of the body were made visible and measurable. Determination to consider body processes as quantifiable was driven by the need to compensate for disability occasioned by warfare or industry. This focus thus draws attention to the biopower associated with systems, which has emerged as a central area of concern for modern healthcare in the second decade of the twenty-first century. 410 0$aDisability history. 606 $aPeople with disabilities$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSociology of disability 606 $aSocial & Cultural History$2bicssc 606 $aMEDICAL$xHistory$2bisacsh 610 $adisability 610 $ameasurement 610 $anormalcy 610 $aquantification 610 $atechnology 610 $ainterwar 610 $aclassification 610 $astandardisation 610 $ahistory 610 $amedical humanities 615 0$aPeople with disabilities$xHistory 615 0$aSociology of disability. 615 7$aSocial & Cultural History 615 7$aMEDICAL$xHistory 676 $a362.409042 700 $aMcGuire$b Coreen$01263260 801 0$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910424953503321 996 $aMeasuring difference, numbering normal$92960414 997 $aUNINA