Breathing Race Into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics by Lundy Braun

Breathing Race Into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics

Lundy Braun

304 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative medium-paced
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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...

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