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dc.contributor.authorMcGuire, Coreen
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-20T10:01:45Z
dc.date.available2020-10-20T10:01:45Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.isbn9781526143174en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42646
dc.description.abstractMeasuring difference, numbering normal provides a detailed study of the technological construction of disability by examining how the audiometer and spirometer were used to create numerical proxies for invisible and inarticulable experiences. 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, this book draws together several existing discussions on disability, healthcare, medical practice, embodiment and emerging medical and scientific technologies at the turn of the twentieth century. 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 normalcy and abnormalcy. Considering these standards from a long historical perspective reveals how these dividing lines shifted when pushed. The central thesis of this book is that health measurements are given artificial authority if they are particularly amenable to calculability and easy measurement. These measurement processes were perpetuated and perfected in the interwar years in Britain as the previously invisible limits of the body were made visible and measurable. Determination to consider body processes as quantifiable was driven by the need to compensate for disability occasioned by warfare or industry. This focus thus draws attention to the biopower associated with systems, which has emerged as a central area of concern for modern healthcare in the second decade of the twenty-first century.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDisability historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicineen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of scienceen_US
dc.subject.otherdisabilityen_US
dc.subject.othermeasurementen_US
dc.subject.othernormalcyen_US
dc.subject.otherquantificationen_US
dc.subject.othertechnologyen_US
dc.subject.otherinterwaren_US
dc.subject.otherclassificationen_US
dc.subject.otherstandardisationen_US
dc.subject.otherhistoryen_US
dc.subject.othermedical humanitiesen_US
dc.titleMeasuring difference, numbering normalen_US
dc.title.alternativeSetting the standards for disability in the interwar perioden_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.7765/9781526143167
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdden_US
oapen.pages248en_US
oapen.place.publicationManchesteren_US


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