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271 pages • hardcover • first pub 2014 • 3 editions
ISBN/UID: 9780816683574
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Edition Pub Date: 01 Feb 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...
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271 pages • hardcover • 2014
ISBN/UID: 9780816683574
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Edition Pub Date: 01 Feb 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...