“Inventing” the Spirometer Working-Class Bodies in Victorian England
“Inventing” the Spirometer Working-Class Bodies in Victorian England
Chapter 1 focuses on mid-nineteenth century Britain when John Hutchinson published his studies on the spirometer and exhibited the instrument and his data to elite London societies. Hutchinson was the first to name the spirometer and the entity it purported to measure and to classify spirometric data according to occupational categories.
Keywords: Race and ethnicity, Genomics and health, Spirometry, Physical education, Anthropometry, Work-related disability, Coal workers pneumoconiosis, Silicosis, Race correction
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