Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal : Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period
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 existin...
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Manchester University Press
2020
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