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Sight correction : vision and blindness in eighteenth-century Britain /
"This book is both an empirical study of the mechanics, economics, and personal accounts of eye surgery and an exploration of the lives of historical people who were affected by vision and its failure, from eye-care specialists to blind writers who could not be cured"--
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2019.
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| Collection: | Peculiar bodies : stories and histories
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Philosophy, sight, and blindness
- Blindness Is not a "disability" : before compulsory able-bodiedness
- Text as theory : understanding sight and blindness in the eighteenth century
- Unofficial eye care : William Read and Mary Cater
- Official eye care : William Cheselden and Peter Kennedy
- A profession of couching : John "Chevalier" Taylor
- Free and accessible eye care for all : John Taylor, oculist of Hatton Garden
- Thomas Gills of St. Edmunds-Bury and the itinerant giver
- John Maxwell : the beauty of gardens
- Priscilla Pointon gets married.