Blindness and the blind in the United States

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Best, Harry, 1880-1971, author.

Series:

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century.

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blind--United States.

Blind.

Blindness--United States.

Blindness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 714 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

1934

Summary:

The History of Disabilities program provides access to primary sources written using terminology that was in common use by the medical establishment and general society at the time, and describes diagnoses, methodologies, procedures, and treatments that may no longer be used or were debunked by later research. Users may come across words and expressions describing individuals and groups that they find condescending, upsetting, disconcerting, offensive, and not acceptable today. MiFhGG

Notes:

"The present work is a revision and expansion of 'The blind: their condition and the work being done for them in the United States'."--Foreword.

Reproduction of the original from the New York Academy of Medicine.

Bibliography at end of some of the chapters.

OCLC:

1477838122