Spectacles and the Victorians

Measuring, defining and shaping visual capacity

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Almond-Brown, Gemma

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298 Seiten

Englisch

Manchester University Presserschienen am05.09.2023

This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non-medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices.mehr

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KlappentextThis book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non-medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices.

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ISBN/GTIN978-1-5261-6135-2

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartGebunden

Verlag

Manchester University Press

Erscheinungsjahr2023

Erscheinungsdatum05.09.2023

ReiheSocial Histories of Medicine

Seiten298 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 145 mm, Höhe 222 mm, Dicke 20 mm

Gewicht511 g

Artikel-Nr.60096119

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GenreGeschichte/Politik

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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 Indexmehr