Measuring difference, numbering normal provides a detailed study of the technological
construction of disability by examining how the audiometer and spirometer were used to …

Breathlessness is a sensation affecting those living with chronic respiratory disease, obesity,
heart disease and anxiety disorders. The Multidimensional Dyspnoea Profile is a respiratory …

In December, 2018, the US radio network National Public Radio (NPR) broadcast the results
of their Frontline investigation into the rise of so-called black lung disease affecting coal …

In 1933, Nobel prize-winning physicist William H. Bragg (1862–1942) was worried about his
neighbour, Capt. Samuel Crosby Halahan (1869–1939), who lived in West Sussex and …

During the first half of the twentieth century, the mining industry in Britain was subject to
recurrent disputes about the risk to miners' lungs from coal dust, moderated by …

The provision of standardized hearing aids is now considered to be a crucial part of the UK
National Health Service. Yet this is only explicable through reference to the career of a …

In this article, the authors consider breathless adults with advanced non-malignant lung
disease and their relationship with health objects. This issue is especially relevant now …

The interplay between assistive technology and disability has received scant attention within
disability studies, in part because of the assumption that any consideration of prosthetic …

Telephony and wireless have revolutionised life. Both are now indispensable to business
and social happiness. In a moment, they overcome distance and unite friends separated by …

Pulse oximeters are technological devices that measure oxygen saturation in the blood
using a small infrared light beam. Through measuring the rate of light absorption, they …