LEADER 02713nam 2200565 450 001 9910789390303321 005 20230803201923.0 010 $a1-4529-4918-2 010 $a1-4529-4099-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000089622 035 $a(EBL)1637623 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001131799 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11733844 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001131799 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11146550 035 $a(PQKB)10073535 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177317 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1637623 035 $a(OCoLC)871257790 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse34965 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1637623 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10841143 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL577398 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000089622 100 $a20140313h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBreathing race into the machine $ethe surprising career of the spirometer from plantation to genetics /$fLundy Braun 210 1$aMinneapolis, Minnesota :$cUniversity of Minnesota Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8166-8357-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"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. 330 $aIn 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 to confirm the finding, which was then applied to argue that slaves were unfit for freedom. What is astonishing is that this example of racial thinking is anything but a historical relic. In Breathing Race into the Machine, science studies scholar Lundy Braun traces the lit 606 $aSpirometry$xHistory 615 0$aSpirometry$xHistory. 676 $a616.244 700 $aBraun$b Lundy$01577189 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789390303321 996 $aBreathing race into the machine$93855580 997 $aUNINA