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Blind in early modern japan : disability, medicine, and identity / Wei Yu Wayne Tan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tan, Wei Yu Wayne, author.
- Series:
- Corporealities
- Corporealities: discourses of disability
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blind--Japan--Social conditions--Edo period, 1600-1868.
- Blind.
- Blind--Japan--Occupations--Edo period, 1600-1868.
- Guilds--Japan--Edo period, 1600-1868.
- Guilds.
- Ophthalmology--Japan--History.
- Ophthalmology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 246 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2022]
- Contents:
- 1. Japanese ophthalmology: medical studies of eye conditions
- 2. Eye medicines: the popular culture of cure
- 3. The blind guild: status and power
- 4. Nonmembership and the challenge of authority
- 5. Texts and performances: the significance of one blind musician's career
- 6. Healing by touch: blind acupuncturists and masseurs
- Epilogue. Onward to the Meiji Period.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 19, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Tan, Wei Yu Wayne. Blind in early modern japan
- ISBN:
- 9780472220434
- 0472220438
- Publisher Number:
- 99993027021
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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