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Measuring difference, numbering normal Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period

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Measuring 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 underesti...

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Main Author: McGuire, Coreen (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2020
Series:Disability history
Subjects:
Social & cultural history
History of medicine
History of science
disability
measurement
normalcy
quantification
technology
interwar
classification
standardisation
history
medical humanities
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