Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal
Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period
Seiten
2020
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-4317-4 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-4317-4 (ISBN)
This book argues that health measurements are given artificial authority if they are particularly amenable to calculability and easy measurement, and shows that problems often coalesce around disabilities that do not lend themselves to easy quantification. -- .
Measurements, and their manipulation, have been underestimated as crucial historical forces motivating and guiding the way we think about disability.
Using measurement technology as a lens, and examining in particular the measurement of hearing and breathing, this book draws together several existing discussions on disability, phenomenology, healthcare, medical practice, big data, embodiment, and emerging medical and scientific technologies around the turn of the twentieth century. These are popular topics of scholarly attention but have not, until now, been considered as interconnected topics within a single book. As such, this work connects several important, and usually separate academic subject areas and historical specialisms. The standards embedded in instrumentation created strict, but, ultimately arbitrary thresholds of what is categorised as normal and abnormal. Considering these standards from a long historical perspective reveals how these dividing lines shifted when pushed.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY) licence. -- .
Measurements, and their manipulation, have been underestimated as crucial historical forces motivating and guiding the way we think about disability.
Using measurement technology as a lens, and examining in particular the measurement of hearing and breathing, this book draws together several existing discussions on disability, phenomenology, healthcare, medical practice, big data, embodiment, and emerging medical and scientific technologies around the turn of the twentieth century. These are popular topics of scholarly attention but have not, until now, been considered as interconnected topics within a single book. As such, this work connects several important, and usually separate academic subject areas and historical specialisms. The standards embedded in instrumentation created strict, but, ultimately arbitrary thresholds of what is categorised as normal and abnormal. Considering these standards from a long historical perspective reveals how these dividing lines shifted when pushed.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY) licence. -- .
Coreen McGuire is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century British History at Durham University -- .
1 Numbering normal
2 Measuring disability
3 The artificial ear and the disability data gap
4 The audiometer and the medicalization of hearing loss
5 The spirometer and the normal subjects
6 The respirator and the mechanization of normal breathing
7 Measuring ourselves
Bibliography
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Disability History |
| Zusatzinfo | 12 black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 435 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-4317-8 / 1526143178 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-4317-4 / 9781526143174 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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