Measuring difference, numbering normal: Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period (Disability History) - Hardcover

McGuire, Coreen

 
9781526143174: Measuring difference, numbering normal: Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period (Disability History)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1526143178 ISBN 13: 9781526143174
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

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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.

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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.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526143178
ISBN 13 
9781526143174
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
248
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