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.
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.
Coreen McGuire is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century British History at Durham University
Inhaltsangabe
1 Numbering normal 2 Measuring disability 3 The artificial ear and the disability data gap 4 The audiometer and the medicalization of hearing loss 5 The spirometer and the normal subjects 6 The respirator and the mechanization of normal breathing 7 Measuring ourselves Bibliography Index
1 Numbering normal 2 Measuring disability 3 The artificial ear and the disability data gap 4 The audiometer and the medicalization of hearing loss 5 The spirometer and the normal subjects 6 The respirator and the mechanization of normal breathing 7 Measuring ourselves Bibliography Index
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