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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Spectacles and the Victorians
    sub title: measuring, defining and shaping visual capacity
  name:
    name part: Almond-Brown, Gemma
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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 medicalize their distribution and use, as well as creating a mainstream marketable device on the high street.
  note: Gemma Almond-Brown.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-274) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: Eyeglasses
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: GT2370 .A46 2023
  classification: 617.752
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Social histories of medicine
  identifier: 1526161354
  identifier: 9781526161352
  identifier: 9781526161369
  identifier: 9781526161376
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230114
    record change date: 20231214142403.6
    record identifier: in00004743964