Spectacles and the Victorians
Spectacles and the Victorians
Measuring, Defining and Shaping Visual Capacity
Almond-Brown, Gemma
Manchester University Press
09/2023
296
Dura
Inglês
9781526161352
15 a 20 dias
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Introducing Victorian spectacle wear
1 Early Victorian understandings of vision and spectacles, 1830-50
2 The 'normal eye' as seen through technology: a quest for medical control, 1850-1904
3 Challenging (ab)normalcy: expansion in manufacture, design, and access, 1851-1904
4 The limits of professionalism: medical practitioners, opticians and popular responses to sight loss, 1880-1904
5 Fashioning the eye and seeing, 1830-1904
Conclusion
Index -- .
1 Early Victorian understandings of vision and spectacles, 1830-50
2 The 'normal eye' as seen through technology: a quest for medical control, 1850-1904
3 Challenging (ab)normalcy: expansion in manufacture, design, and access, 1851-1904
4 The limits of professionalism: medical practitioners, opticians and popular responses to sight loss, 1880-1904
5 Fashioning the eye and seeing, 1830-1904
Conclusion
Index -- .
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Assistive technology; Design model of disability; Material culture; Medical capitalism; Medical model of disability; Medicalisation; Normalisation; Ophthalmology; Sensory history; Vision
Introducing Victorian spectacle wear
1 Early Victorian understandings of vision and spectacles, 1830-50
2 The 'normal eye' as seen through technology: a quest for medical control, 1850-1904
3 Challenging (ab)normalcy: expansion in manufacture, design, and access, 1851-1904
4 The limits of professionalism: medical practitioners, opticians and popular responses to sight loss, 1880-1904
5 Fashioning the eye and seeing, 1830-1904
Conclusion
Index -- .
1 Early Victorian understandings of vision and spectacles, 1830-50
2 The 'normal eye' as seen through technology: a quest for medical control, 1850-1904
3 Challenging (ab)normalcy: expansion in manufacture, design, and access, 1851-1904
4 The limits of professionalism: medical practitioners, opticians and popular responses to sight loss, 1880-1904
5 Fashioning the eye and seeing, 1830-1904
Conclusion
Index -- .
Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.