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Sight correction : vision and blindness in eighteenth-century Britain / Chris Mounsey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mounsey, Chris, 1959- author.
- Series:
- Peculiar bodies: stories and histories
- Peculiar bodies : stories and histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ophthalmology--History--Great Britain--18th century.
- Ophthalmology.
- History.
- Blindness--Social aspects.
- Blindness.
- Vision.
- Social aspects.
- People with visual disabilities.
- Blind.
- Ophthalmologists.
- Vision disorders--Treatment.
- Vision disorders.
- Great Britain.
- Vision disorders--Treatment--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Ophthalmologists--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Blind--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- People with visual disabilities--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Vision--Social aspects--Great Britain--18th century.
- Blindness--Social aspects--Great Britain--18th century.
- Eye Diseases--history.
- Vision Disorders--history.
- Ophthalmologists--history.
- Blindness--history.
- Disabled Persons--history.
- United Kingdom.
- History, 18th Century.
- Medical Subjects:
- Eye Diseases--history.
- Vision Disorders--history.
- Ophthalmologists--history.
- Blindness--history.
- Disabled Persons--history.
- United Kingdom.
- History, 18th Century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 330 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 16, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Mounsey, Chris, 1959- Sight correction
- ISBN:
- 0813943337
- 9780813943336
- Publisher Number:
- 40029705517
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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