Breathing Race Into the Machine

Lundy Braun traces the little-known history of the spirometer to reveal the ways medical instrumentshave worked to naturalise racial and ethnic differences, from Victorian Britain to today. An unsettling account of the pernicious effects of racial thinking that divides people along genetic lines, th [...]
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Lundy Braun traces the little-known history of the spirometer to reveal the ways medical instrumentshave worked to naturalise racial and ethnic differences, from Victorian Britain to today. An unsettling account of the pernicious effects of racial thinking that divides people along genetic lines, this book helps us understand how race enters into science and shapes medical research and practice.