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"A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears—through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of our worst appetites and weaknesses—and humanity's ultimately exhilarating spirit."
Blindness --- Blindness --- Fiction --- Literature, Modern
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Blindness --- Epidemics --- Epidemiology. --- Disease outbreaks --- Diseases --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pestilences --- Communicable diseases --- Amaurosis --- Vision disorders --- Outbreaks --- Pandemics
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Dyslexia --- Dyslexia. --- Dyslexie --- Developmental dyslexia --- Word-blindness, Partial --- Developmental Reading Disorder --- Word Blindness --- Alexia --- Dyslexia, Developmental --- Reading Disability, Developmental --- Reading Disorder --- Reading Disorder, Developmental --- Alexias --- Blindness, Word --- Blindnesses, Word --- Developmental Dyslexia --- Developmental Dyslexias --- Developmental Reading Disabilities --- Developmental Reading Disability --- Developmental Reading Disorders --- Disabilities, Developmental Reading --- Disability, Developmental Reading --- Disorder, Developmental Reading --- Disorder, Reading --- Disorders, Developmental Reading --- Disorders, Reading --- Dyslexias --- Dyslexias, Developmental --- Reading Disabilities, Developmental --- Reading Disorders --- Reading Disorders, Developmental --- Word Blindnesses --- Language disorders --- Reading disability --- Learning Disorders --- Learning Disabilities --- Dyslexie.
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Ophthalmology --- Eye --- Blindness --- Ophthalmology. --- Eye Diseases --- Eye Injuries --- Vision Disorders. --- Diseases --- Prevention --- Societies, etc. --- Diseases. --- therapy. --- instrumentation. --- Day Blindness --- Metamorphopsia --- Vision Disability --- Visual Disorders --- Visual Impairment --- Hemeralopia --- Macropsia --- Micropsia --- Blindness, Day --- Disabilities, Vision --- Disability, Vision --- Disorder, Visual --- Disorders, Visual --- Hemeralopias --- Impairment, Visual --- Impairments, Visual --- Macropsias --- Metamorphopsias --- Micropsias --- Vision Disabilities --- Vision Disorder --- Visual Disorder --- Visual Impairments --- Medicine --- Amaurosis --- Vision disorders --- Eyeball --- Eyes --- Visual system --- Face --- Photoreceptors --- Vision --- Diseases and defects
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Dogs --- Cats --- Veterinary ophthalmology. --- Diseases. --- Ophthalmology --- Blindness in animals --- Eye diseases --- Vision disorders --- Eye abnormalities --- Pain --- Dog diseases --- Cat diseases --- veterinary --- drug therapy
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In the 1820s, several years before Braille was invented, Therese-Adele Husson, a young blind woman from provincial France, wrote an audacious manifesto about her life, French society, and her hopes for the future. Through extensive research and scholarly detective work, authors Catherine Kudlick and Zina Weygand have rescued this intriguing woman and the remarkable story of her life and tragic death from obscurity, giving readers a rare look into a world recorded by an unlikely historical figure. Reflections is one of the earliest recorded manifestations of group solidarity among people with t
Blind --- Blind women --- Conduct of life. --- Husson, Therese-Adele, --- among. --- blind. --- changes. --- fascinating. --- figure. --- ideas. --- independence. --- newly-discovered. --- nineteenth-century. --- physical. --- poignant. --- records. --- self-sufficiency. --- sensibility. --- spirit. --- story. --- that. --- Blindness in women --- Women with disabilities --- Blind people --- Blind persons --- Blindness --- People with visual disabilities --- Deafblind people --- Patients --- Foucault, --- Husson, Adèle, --- Husson-Foucault, Thérèse-Adèle,
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Bold, deeply learned, and important, offering a provocative thesis that is worked out through legal and archival materials and in subtle and original readings of literary texts. Absolutely new in content and significantly innovative in methodology and argument, Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind offers a cultural geography of medieval blindness that invites us to be more discriminating about how we think of geographies of disability today." ---Christopher Baswell, Columbia University "A challenging, interesting, and timely book that is also very well written . . . Wheatley has researched and brought together a leitmotiv that I never would have guessed was so pervasive, so intriguing, so worthy of a book." ---Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind presents the first comprehensive exploration of a disability in the Middle Ages, drawing on the literature, history, art history, and religious discourse of England and France. It relates current theories of disability to the cultural and institutional constructions of blindness in the eleventh through fifteenth centuries, examining the surprising differences in the treatment of blind people and the responses to blindness in these two countries. The book shows that pernicious attitudes about blindness were partially offset by innovations and ameliorations---social; literary; and, to an extent, medical---that began to foster a fuller understanding and acceptance of blindness. A number of practices and institutions in France, both positive and negative---blinding as punishment, the foundation of hospices for the blind, and some medical treatment---resulted in not only attitudes that commodified human sight but also inhumane satire against the blind in French literature, both secular and religious. Anglo-Saxon and later medieval England differed markedly in all three of these areas, and the less prominent position of blind people in society resulted in noticeably fewer cruel representations in literature. This book will interest students of literature, history, art history, and religion because it will provide clear contexts for considering any medieval artifact relating to blindness---a literary text, a historical document, a theological treatise, or a work of art. For some readers, the book will serve as an introduction to the field of disability studies, an area of increasing interest both within and outside of the academy. Edward Wheatley is Surtz Professor of Medieval Literature at Loyola University, Chicago.
Blind --- Disability studies. --- People with disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Education --- Blind people --- Blind persons --- Blindness --- People with visual disabilities --- Deafblind people --- History --- Study and teaching --- Curricula --- Patients --- Blind -- France -- History -- To 1500.;Blind -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500.;Disability studies.
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Purchasers of Veterinary Ophthalmic Surgery have at their disposal a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to all types of ophthalmic surgical techniques across all species. Techniques are covered topographically, and species-by-species, with difficulty gradings for each one. Many of these procedures will be undertaken by the veterinary generalist, not only the specialized ophthalmologist. Nearly 1,000 large-sized illustrations, 750 of them in full colour, allow the practitioner to follow the techniques step-by-step. Internationally recognized as an authority on small animal ophthalmic
Ophthalmology --- Veterinary pathology --- Veterinary surgery --- Veterinary medicine --- Veterinary ophthalmology. --- Eye --- Surgery. --- Eye Diseases --- Surgical Instruments --- Anesthetics, Local. --- Dogs --- Cats --- Horses --- veterinary --- surgery --- veterinary. --- surgery. --- Ophthalmic surgery --- Blindness in animals
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Ophthalmology --- Eye --- Ophtalmologie --- Oeil --- Periodicals --- Diseases --- Périodiques --- Maladies --- Eye Diseases. --- Ophthalmology. --- Vision Disorders. --- Diseases. --- Disease, Eye --- Diseases, Eye --- Eye Disease --- Day Blindness --- Metamorphopsia --- Vision Disability --- Visual Disorders --- Visual Impairment --- Hemeralopia --- Macropsia --- Micropsia --- Blindness, Day --- Disabilities, Vision --- Disability, Vision --- Disorder, Visual --- Disorders, Visual --- Hemeralopias --- Impairment, Visual --- Impairments, Visual --- Macropsias --- Metamorphopsias --- Micropsias --- Vision Disabilities --- Vision Disorder --- Visual Disorder --- Visual Impairments --- Eyeball --- Eyes --- Visual system --- Diseases and defects --- vision science --- ophthalmology --- eye diseases --- Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures --- Medicine --- Face --- Photoreceptors --- Vision --- Eye Disorders --- Eye Disorder --- Ophthalmology & Optometry
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“In their new book, Finn Egil Tønnessen and Per Henning Uppstad provide a set of theoretical and philosophical reflections on research in reading and dyslexia. It is a pleasure to welcome this book, which reflects the many contributions made by researchers at the National Centre for Reading Education and Research in Stavanger, Norway.” – Professor Usha Goswami, University of Cambridge. Careful reflection on the concepts and methods used is a prerequisite for further development in any field of research. The authors think cognitive psychology has become too dominant in reading and dyslexia research, arguing that it should be combined with behaviourism and connectionism – in part by focusing on the concept of ‘skill’. The key components of a skill are claimed to be automaticity, awareness and shifts between them. Reading is defined as an interpretative skill, which should be viewed from the perspective of hermeneutics. The authors use these fundamental analyses and definitions to shed new light on the ‘balanced approach to reading instruction’, ‘reading fluency’ and other key concepts. The book also deals with problems in the definition of ‘dyslexia’ and proposes a method to arrive at clear and fruitful definitions. It concludes with a chapter trying to answer the question of in what sense, or to what extent, it can be claimed that reading and dyslexia research has made progress. The book mainly builds on articles published over the past 25 years by Professor Finn Egil Tønnessen at the National Centre for Reading Education and Research, Stavanger, Norway.
Medicine --- Education --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Social Sciences --- Education - General --- Neurology --- Dyslexia. --- Education. --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Developmental dyslexia --- Word-blindness, Partial --- Education, general. --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Language disorders --- Reading disability --- Alexia
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