Scan barcode
271 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780816683574
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 01 February 2014
Description
How race became embedded in a medical instrument 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 ci...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings
271 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780816683574
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 01 February 2014
Description
How race became embedded in a medical instrument 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 ci...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings