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• Title:Breathing race into the machine : the surprising career of the spirometer from plantation to genetics / Lundy Braun.
  
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• Related Title:Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.
  
• Author/Creator:Braun, Lundy.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Project Muse University Press eBooks
  
• Published/Created:Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
  

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  • Call Number: WB284
    
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• Medical Subjects:Spirometry--history.
  Spirometry--instrumentation.
  African Continental Ancestry Group.
  European Continental Ancestry Group.
  History, 19th Century.
  History, 20th Century.
  Lung--physiology.
  Pneumoconiosis--etiology.
  Racism--history.
  
• Subject(s):Electronic books.
  
• Description:1 online resource
  
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• 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.
  
• ISBN:9780816683574
  9780816683598
  
• Contents:"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.