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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.

‘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.

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.

The categorisation of hearing loss through telephony in inter-war Britain (2019)
Journal Article
McGuire, C. A. (2019). The categorisation of hearing loss through telephony in inter-war Britain. History and Technology, 35(2), 138-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/07341512.2019.1652435

The telephone in inter-war Britain was an important tool in both the identification and categorisation of individual hearing loss. Between 1912 and 1981, the British Post Office had control over a nationalised telephone system. Linkage between teleph... Read More about The categorisation of hearing loss through telephony in inter-war Britain.

‘X-rays don't tell lies’: the Medical Research Council and the measurement of respiratory disability, 1936–1945 (2019)
Journal Article
McGuire, C. (2019). ‘X-rays don't tell lies’: the Medical Research Council and the measurement of respiratory disability, 1936–1945. British Journal for the History of Science, 52(3), 447-465. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007087419000232

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, pr... Read More about ‘X-rays don't tell lies’: the Medical Research Council and the measurement of respiratory disability, 1936–1945.

The Visible and the Invisible: Disability, Assistive Technology, and Stigma (2019)
Book Chapter
McGuire, C., & Carel, H. (2019). The Visible and the Invisible: Disability, Assistive Technology, and Stigma. In D. Wasserman, & A. Cureton (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability (598-615). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190622879.013.14

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 technology must represent support of the medical model of disabil... Read More about The Visible and the Invisible: Disability, Assistive Technology, and Stigma.