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

CONTENTS

Contents acknowledgments . . . . . . ix introduction Measuring Vital Capacity . . . . . . xiii 1. “inventing” the Spirometer Working-Class Bodies in Victorian England . . . . . . 1 2. black Lungs and White Lungs The Science of White Supremacy in the Nineteenth-Century United States . . . . . . 27 3. The Professionalization of Physical Culture Making and Measuring Whiteness . . . . . . 55 4. Progress and Race Vitality in Turn-of-the-Century Britain . . . . . . 83 5. globalizing Spirometry The “Racial Factor” in Scientific Medicine . . . . . . 109 6. Adjudicating Disability in the industrial Worker . . . . . . 139 7. Diagnosing Silicosis Physiological Testing in South African Gold Mines . . . . . . 167 epilogue How Race Takes Root . . . . . . 195 notes . . . . . . 207 index . . . . . . 259 This page intentionally left blank ...