Lundy Braun: 1 book
Breathing Race into the Machine
The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In 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...
