Coreen Mcguire
Biographic Data
| ID | 81706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Coreen Mcguire |
| GIVEN NAMES | Coreen |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcguire |
| SIGNATURE | MCGUIRE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Who Invented the Possum? What Historians Can Learn from Disabled Innovation in Britain's Responaut Communities
This article provides a new exploration of disabled innovation that transforms our understanding of collective contributions to the history of science and technology. It does so by showing how a user network galvanized individual inventions into disabled expertise by tracking the development of two technologies-the Selectascan/Possum and the adapted Loudspeaking Telephone. Hamraie and Fritsch's 2019 "Crip Technoscience Manifesto" defined "disable…
Relational Disability and Invisible Illness in Industrial Britain
Recent historiography has questioned the validity of an "industrialization thesis" that directly links disability to the industrial revolution and the exclusion of nonstandard bodies from factory work. In this article I defend the industrialization thesis by showing how an expanded version of it can reveal the disabling impacts of labor and illuminate the extent to which medical and legal standards diverged from lived experiences in the context o…
The body says it’
Breathlessness is a sensation affecting those living with chronic respiratory disease, obesity, heart disease and anxiety disorders. The Multidimensional Dyspnoea Profile is a respiratory questionnaire which attempts to measure the incommunicable different sensory qualities (and emotional responses) of breathlessness. Drawing on sensorial anthropology we take as our object of study the process of turning sensations into symptoms. We consider how …
Objects of safety and imprisonment
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 during the Covid-19 pandemic, where the experiences of breathlessness and dependence on related medical objects have sudden and global relevance. These objects include ambulatory oxygen, oxygen concentrators and inhalers, and non-pharmacological objects such as self-moni…
The Color of Breath
The Color of Breath Coreen McGuire (bio), Jane Macnaughton (bio), and Havi Carel (bio) Breath under the Skin 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 record a proxy measure of oxygen levels in the blood. Normally, if your blood oxygen levels were measurably low, you would know it. You would experience corresponding …
Marion Andrea Schmidt, Eradicating Deafness? Genetics, Pathology and Diversity in Twentieth-Century America
History of science has much to offer disability history, just as disability history has much to offer history of science. In Eradicating Deafness, Schmidt shows how useful the space in-between history of science and disability history can be, by centring disability in a history of twentieth-century genetics. In many ways, this book is concerned with exploring and closing the spaces in between opposing or separate understandings: the social model …
Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain
Reviewed by: Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain: 1830–1930 by Graeme Gooday and Karen Sayer Coreen Mcguire (bio) Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain: 1830–1930 By Graeme Gooday and Karen Sayer. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. 126. Disability history is a relatively new historical field, but within it, Deaf history (which is capitalized to indicate that the term is being used for a group identified through cult…
X-rays don't tell lies’
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 governmental, industrial, medical and mining bodies. In this environment, precise measurements offered a way to present uncontested objective knowledge. By accessing primary source material from the National Archives, the South Wales Miners Library and the University of Brist…
Phyllis M. Tookey Kerridge and the science of audiometric standardization in Britain
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 woman who has, until now, been entirely forgotten. Dr Phyllis Margaret Tookey Kerridge (1901–1940) was an authoritative figure in a variety of fields: medicine, physiology, otology and the construction of scientific apparatus. The astounding breadth of her professiona…
The body says it’
Breathlessness is a sensation affecting those living with chronic respiratory disease, obesity, heart disease and anxiety disorders. The Multidimensional Dyspnoea Profile is a respiratory questionnaire which attempts to measure the incommunicable different sensory qualities (and emotional responses) of breathlessness. Drawing on sensorial anthropology we take as our object of study the process of turning sensations into symptoms. We consider how …
Objects of safety and imprisonment
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 during the Covid-19 pandemic, where the experiences of breathlessness and dependence on related medical objects have sudden and global relevance. These objects include ambulatory oxygen, oxygen concentrators and inhalers, and non-pharmacological objects such as self-moni…
X-rays don't tell lies’
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 governmental, industrial, medical and mining bodies. In this environment, precise measurements offered a way to present uncontested objective knowledge. By accessing primary source material from the National Archives, the South Wales Miners Library and the University of Brist…
Phyllis M. Tookey Kerridge and the science of audiometric standardization in Britain
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 woman who has, until now, been entirely forgotten. Dr Phyllis Margaret Tookey Kerridge (1901–1940) was an authoritative figure in a variety of fields: medicine, physiology, otology and the construction of scientific apparatus. The astounding breadth of her professiona…
Phyllis M. Tookey Kerridge and the science of audiometric standardization in Britain
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 woman who has, until now, been entirely forgotten. Dr Phyllis Margaret Tookey Kerridge (1901–1940) was an authoritative figure in a variety of fields: medicine, physiology, otology and the construction of scientific apparatus. The astounding breadth of her professiona…
X-rays don't tell lies’
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 governmental, industrial, medical and mining bodies. In this environment, precise measurements offered a way to present uncontested objective knowledge. By accessing primary source material from the National Archives, the South Wales Miners Library and the University of Brist…
The Color of Breath
The Color of Breath Coreen McGuire (bio), Jane Macnaughton (bio), and Havi Carel (bio) Breath under the Skin 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 record a proxy measure of oxygen levels in the blood. Normally, if your blood oxygen levels were measurably low, you would know it. You would experience corresponding …
Marion Andrea Schmidt, Eradicating Deafness? Genetics, Pathology and Diversity in Twentieth-Century America
History of science has much to offer disability history, just as disability history has much to offer history of science. In Eradicating Deafness, Schmidt shows how useful the space in-between history of science and disability history can be, by centring disability in a history of twentieth-century genetics. In many ways, this book is concerned with exploring and closing the spaces in between opposing or separate understandings: the social model …
Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain
Reviewed by: Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain: 1830–1930 by Graeme Gooday and Karen Sayer Coreen Mcguire (bio) Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain: 1830–1930 By Graeme Gooday and Karen Sayer. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. 126. Disability history is a relatively new historical field, but within it, Deaf history (which is capitalized to indicate that the term is being used for a group identified through cult…
The body says it’
Breathlessness is a sensation affecting those living with chronic respiratory disease, obesity, heart disease and anxiety disorders. The Multidimensional Dyspnoea Profile is a respiratory questionnaire which attempts to measure the incommunicable different sensory qualities (and emotional responses) of breathlessness. Drawing on sensorial anthropology we take as our object of study the process of turning sensations into symptoms. We consider how …
Objects of safety and imprisonment
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 during the Covid-19 pandemic, where the experiences of breathlessness and dependence on related medical objects have sudden and global relevance. These objects include ambulatory oxygen, oxygen concentrators and inhalers, and non-pharmacological objects such as self-moni…
Who Invented the Possum? What Historians Can Learn from Disabled Innovation in Britain's Responaut Communities
This article provides a new exploration of disabled innovation that transforms our understanding of collective contributions to the history of science and technology. It does so by showing how a user network galvanized individual inventions into disabled expertise by tracking the development of two technologies-the Selectascan/Possum and the adapted Loudspeaking Telephone. Hamraie and Fritsch's 2019 "Crip Technoscience Manifesto" defined "disable…
Relational Disability and Invisible Illness in Industrial Britain
Recent historiography has questioned the validity of an "industrialization thesis" that directly links disability to the industrial revolution and the exclusion of nonstandard bodies from factory work. In this article I defend the industrialization thesis by showing how an expanded version of it can reveal the disabling impacts of labor and illuminate the extent to which medical and legal standards diverged from lived experiences in the context o…
Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (3 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (3 works) · History (3 works)