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Blind in early modern Japan : disability, medicine, and identity /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tan, Wei Yu Wayne (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2022]
Series:Corporealities.
Subjects:
Blind > Japan > Social conditions > Edo period, 1600-1868.
Blind > Japan > Occupations > Edo period, 1600-1868.
Guilds > Japan > Edo period, 1600-1868.
Ophthalmology > Japan > History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Japanese ophthalmology: medical studies of eye conditions
  • 2. Eye medicines: the popular culture of cure
  • 3. The blind guild: status and power
  • 4. Nonmembership and the challenge of authority
  • 5. Texts and performances: the significance of one blind musician's career
  • 6. Healing by touch: blind acupuncturists and masseurs
  • Epilogue. Onward to the Meiji Period.