Breathing Race Into The Machine The Surprising Career Of The Spirometer From Plantation To Genetics
Lung
African Continental Ancestry Group
Whites
Instrumentation
Lungs
History, 19th Century
Black people
History, 20th Century
Etiology
Blacks
Racism
Physiology
Diseases
Social aspects
History
In the antebellum South, plantation physsicians 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 app…
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