Outputs (15)

What is disability history the history of? (2024)
Journal Article
McGuire, C. A. (2024). What is disability history the history of?. History Compass, 22(6), Article e12813. https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12813

This article has two connected aims. First, to contour the boundaries of modern disability history through outlining its development and second, to provide a new methodological agenda for disability history. The design model of disability has outline... Read More about What is disability history the history of?.

History at the heart of medicine (2024)
Journal Article
McGuire, C., & Woods, A. (2024). History at the heart of medicine. Wellcome Open Research, 9(249), https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21229.1

With a focus on the challenges of today and tomorrow in the critical medical humanities the role of history is often overlooked. Yet history and medicine are closely intertwined. Right now, with the surfacing of knotty problems such as changing demog... Read More about History at the heart of medicine.

Who Invented the Possum? What Historians Can Learn from Disabled Innovation in Britain's Responaut Communities (2024)
Journal Article
McGuire, C. (2024). Who Invented the Possum? What Historians Can Learn from Disabled Innovation in Britain's Responaut Communities. Technology and Culture, 65(1), 89-116. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2024.a920517

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 disa... Read More about Who Invented the Possum? What Historians Can Learn from Disabled Innovation in Britain's Responaut Communities.

Revenge of the Nerds (2023)
Journal Article
McGuire, C., & Martin, J. D. (2023). Revenge of the Nerds. Physics in Perspective, 25, 169-172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-023-00304-3

Respiratory technologies and the co-production of breathing in the twentieth century (2021)
Book Chapter
McGuire, C., Virdi, J., & Hutton, J. (2021). Respiratory technologies and the co-production of breathing in the twentieth century. In A. Hanley, & J. Meyer (Eds.), Patient voices in Britain, 1840–1948 (183-221). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526154897.00017

‘The body says it’: the difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness (2021)
Journal Article
Malpass, A., Mcguire, C., & Macnaughton, J. (2022). ‘The body says it’: the difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness. Medical Humanities, 48(1), 63-75. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2019-011816

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 dif... Read More about ‘The body says it’: the difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness.

The Color of Breath (2020)
Journal Article
McGuire, C., Macnaughton, J., & Carel, H. (2020). The Color of Breath. Literature and Medicine, 38(2), 233-238. https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2020.0015

‘Inventing amplified telephony: the co-creation of aural technology and disability’ (2020)
Book Chapter
McGuire, C. (2020). ‘Inventing amplified telephony: the co-creation of aural technology and disability’. In C. Jones (Ed.), Modern Prostheses in Anglo-American Commodity Cultures. Manchester University Press

Measuring difference, numbering normal: Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period (2020)
Book
McGuire, C. (2020). Measuring difference, numbering normal: Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526143167

Measuring difference, numbering normal provides a detailed study of the technological construction of disability by examining how the audiometer and spirometer were used to create numerical proxies for invisible and inarticulable experiences. Measure... Read More about Measuring difference, numbering normal: Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period.

Objects of safety and imprisonment: Breathless patients’ use of medical objects in a palliative setting (2020)
Journal Article
Binnie, K., McGuire, C., & Carel, H. (2021). Objects of safety and imprisonment: Breathless patients’ use of medical objects in a palliative setting. Journal of Material Culture, 26(2), 122-141. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183520931900

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 a... Read More about Objects of safety and imprisonment: Breathless patients’ use of medical objects in a palliative setting.