Spectacles and the Victorians: measuring, defining and shaping visual capacity
"This is the first full-length study of spectacles in the Victorian period. It examines how the Victorians shaped our understanding of functional visual capacity and the concept of 20:20 vision. Demonstrating how this unique assistive device can connect the histories of medicine, technology and...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "This is the first full-length study of spectacles in the Victorian period. It examines how the Victorians shaped our understanding of functional visual capacity and the concept of 20:20 vision. Demonstrating how this unique assistive device can connect the histories of medicine, technology and disability, it charts how technology has influenced our understanding of sensory perception, both through the diagnostic methods used to measure visual impairment and the utility of spectacles to ameliorate its effects. Taking a material culture approach, the book assesses how the design of spectacles thwarted ophthalmologists' attempts to medicalise their distribution and use, as well as creating a mainstream marketable device on the high street"-- |
| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis Seite [257]-274. - Index |
| Beschreibung: | xiii, 282 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm |
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CONTENTS
LIST
OF
FIGURES
PAGE
VIII
LIST
OF
TABLE IX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
X
INTRODUCING VICTORIAN
SPECTACLE WEAR
1
1 EARLY VICTORIAN
UNDERSTANDINGS OF VISION AND SPECTACLES,
1830-1850
39
2 THE `NORMAL
EYE' AS SEEN THROUGH TECHNOLOGY:
A QUEST
FOR
MEDICAL
CONTROL,
1850-1904
80
3 CHALLENGING (AB)NORMALCY:
EXPANSION
IN
MANUFACTURE,
DESIGN
AND ACCESS,
1851-1904
123
4 THE
LIMITS
OF PROFESSIONALISM:
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS,
OPTICIANS AND POPULAR RESPONSES TO SIGHT
LOSS, 1880-1904
163
5 FASHIONING
THE EYE AND SEEING,
1830-1904
207
CONCLUSION
246
BIBLIOGRAPHY
257
INDEX
275
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CONTENTS
LIST
OF
FIGURES
PAGE
VIII
LIST
OF
TABLE IX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
X
INTRODUCING VICTORIAN
SPECTACLE WEAR
1
1 EARLY VICTORIAN
UNDERSTANDINGS OF VISION AND SPECTACLES,
1830-1850
39
2 THE `NORMAL
EYE' AS SEEN THROUGH TECHNOLOGY:
A QUEST
FOR
MEDICAL
CONTROL,
1850-1904
80
3 CHALLENGING (AB)NORMALCY:
EXPANSION
IN
MANUFACTURE,
DESIGN
AND ACCESS,
1851-1904
123
4 THE
LIMITS
OF PROFESSIONALISM:
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS,
OPTICIANS AND POPULAR RESPONSES TO SIGHT
LOSS, 1880-1904
163
5 FASHIONING
THE EYE AND SEEING,
1830-1904
207
CONCLUSION
246
BIBLIOGRAPHY
257
INDEX
275
$
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DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
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