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Dr Coreen McGuire's Outputs (4)

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.