Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period - Couverture rigide

McGuire, Coreen

 
9781526143174: Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1526143178 ISBN 13 : 9781526143174
Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Coreen McGuire is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century British History at Durham University

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Éditeur
Manchester University Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1526143178
ISBN 13 
9781526143174
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
248
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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