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Sight correction : vision and blindness in eighteenth-century Britain / Chris Mounsey.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Mounsey, Chris, 1959- author.
Contributor:
JSTOR (Online Service)
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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