Breathing Race Into the Machine
Lundy Braun discusses how racism is literally built into the spirometer.
spirometry
A matter of life and breath
View presentations from Life of Breath researchers, drawing on a range of different perspectives, including the lived experience of breathlessness,…
Dust to dust (McGuire, 2019)
Black lung is a disease often relegated to the domain of the history book. But can historical research tell us…
Spirometry: Is ‘normal’ what it seems?
Spirometers, like other medical technologies, need a definition of 'normal' to quantify 'abnormal'. But how reliable is this baseline?
Measuring Breath: from cadavers to spirometers
New Life of Breath post-doctoral researcher Coreen McGuire introduces her research: Last seen fleeing the scene of the crime, the suspect…
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