Spectacles and the Victorians : measuring, defining and shaping visual capacity / Gemma Almond-Brown.
"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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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Social histories of medicine.
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Table of Contents:
- Introducing Victorian spectacle wear
- Early Victorian understandings of vision and spectacles, 1830-1850
- The 'normal eye' as seen through technology: a quest for medical control, 1850-1904
- Challenging (ab)normalcy: expansion in manufacture, design and access, 1851-1904
- The limits of professionalism: medical practitioners, opticians and popular responses to sight loss, 1880-1904
- Fashioning the eye and seeing, 1830-1904.