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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blindness--Social aspects--Great Britain--18th century.

Blindness.

Vision--Social aspects--Great Britain--18th century.

Vision.

People with visual disabilities--Great Britain--History--18th century.

People with visual disabilities.

Blind--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Blind.

Ophthalmologists--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Ophthalmologists.

Vision disorders--Treatment--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Vision disorders.

Ophthalmology--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Ophthalmology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813943336

0813943337

OCLC:

1135087394