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

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

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Author / Creator:	Braun, Lundy, author.
Imprint:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Description:	xxix, 271 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Spirometry -- History. Lungs -- Dust diseases -- History. Lungs -- Dust diseases -- 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. Blacks -- Diseases. Lungs -- Dust diseases. Lungs -- Dust diseases -- Social aspects. Racism in medicine. Spirometry. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9970798

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Other uniform titles:	Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.
ISBN:	9780816683574 (hc : alk. paper) 0816683573 (hc : alk. paper) 9780816683598 (pb : alk. paper) 081668359X (pb : alk. paper)
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.

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