TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mounsey,Chris
TI  - Sight correction: vision and blindness in eighteenth-century Britain 
T2  - Peculiar bodies : stories and histories
SN  - 9780813943336
AV  - RE30 .S544 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - Ophthalmology
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Vision disorders
KW  - Treatment
KW  - Ophthalmologists
KW  - Blind
KW  - People with visual disabilities
KW  - Vision
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Blindness
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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"--
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ER  -