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"This book offers an unexpected and unprecedented account of blindness and sight. Legally blind since the age of eleven, Georgina Kleege draws on her experiences to offer a detailed testimony of visual impairment - both her own view of the world and the world's view of the blind." "Kleege describes the negative social status of the blind, analyzes stereotypes of the blind that have been perpetuated by movies, and discusses how blindness has been portrayed in literature. She vividly conveys the visual experience of someone with severely impaired sight and explains what she can see and what she cannot (and how her inability to achieve eye contact - in a society that prizes that form of connection - has affected her). Finally she tells of the various ways she reads, and the freedom she felt when she stopped concealing her blindness and acquired skills, such as reading braille, as part of a new, blind identity. Without sentimentality or cliches, Kleege offers us the opportunity to imagine life without sight."--Jacket.

Blind. --- People with visual disabilities. --- Blindness. --- Blindness --- Blind --- People with visual disabilities --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Disabilities --- Psychological aspects. --- Psychological aspects --- Amaurosis --- Partially seeing persons --- Partially sighted persons --- Vision disorders --- Visually disabled persons --- Visually handicapped --- Visually impaired persons --- Blind people --- Blind persons --- Patients --- People with disabilities --- Deafblind people

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This book seeks to answer why there been a persistent fascination by the sighted, including philosophers, poets and the public, in what the blind 'see'.

Blindness --- Amaurosis --- Vision disorders --- Philosophy. --- Blind --- Touch --- Visual perception --- Optics, Psychological --- Vision --- Perception --- Visual discrimination --- Feeling --- Haptic sense --- Haptics --- Tactile perception --- Tactual perception --- Somesthesia --- Blind people --- Blind persons --- People with visual disabilities --- Deafblind people --- History. --- Psychological aspects --- Patients --- Blind. --- Touch. --- Visual perception.

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Background: Psychosocial care remains an extremely important part of the holistic approach to care, but one which has been underestimated in clinical practice and only superficially addressed in the ophthalmic literature to date. This aspect of care most often gets less attention by healthcare professionals due to the dominance of a technology-enhanced approach to caring practice. Clearly, the skills afforded by science and technology are important for healthcare professionals in practice, but it is also important for them to be aware of the impact of the transfer of such skills on patients from a humanistic perspective. The delivery of technology-enhanced care can often trigger innermost feelings and needs such as fear, anxiety, stress, loss of control, and a sense of alienation. This book seeks to address the imbalance often observed between nursing both as an art and science, and to emphasise the importance of raising the healthcare knowledge and understanding of the value of social psychology and its application to ophthalmic practice in addressing this imbalance. Main aims: (1) To discuss the psychosocial needs and care of patients with ocular disease and sight loss. (2) To discuss the importance and relevance of the psychosocial aspects of ophthalmic care with reference to psychosocial theory and its application. (3) To discuss the psychosocial role of the healthcare professional in facilitating emotional recovery and promoting quality of life in the care and management of patients with ocular disease and sight loss. .

Nursing. --- Ophthalmology. --- Mental health. --- Surgery. --- Emergency medicine. --- Mental Health. --- Emergency Medicine. --- Medicine, Emergency --- Medicine --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- Surgery, Primitive --- Emotional health --- Mental hygiene --- Mental physiology and hygiene --- Happiness --- Health --- Public health --- Mental illness --- Psychiatry --- Psychology --- Psychology, Pathological --- Eye --- Clinical nursing --- Nurses and nursing --- Nursing process --- Care of the sick --- Diseases --- Blindness --- Ophthalmic nursing. --- Psychological aspects. --- Amaurosis --- Vision disorders --- Nursing

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Ophthalmology --- Eye --- Blindness --- Eye Diseases --- Eye Injuries --- Vision Disorders. --- Ophthalmology. --- Medicine --- 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 --- Amaurosis --- Vision disorders --- Eyeball --- Eyes --- Visual system --- Face --- Photoreceptors --- Vision --- Diseases --- Prevention --- Societies, etc. --- therapy. --- instrumentation. --- Diseases. --- Diseases and defects --- medicine --- visual science --- ophthalmology

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"This book is both an empirical study of the mechanics, economics, and personal accounts of eye surgery and an exploration of the lives of historical people who were affected by vision and its failure, from eye-care specialists to blind writers who could not be cured"--

Blindness --- Vision --- People with visual disabilities --- Blind --- Ophthalmologists --- Vision disorders --- Ophthalmology --- Medicine --- Eye --- Defective vision --- Disorders of vision --- Impaired vision --- Visual disorders --- Visual function disorders --- Visual handicaps --- Visual impairments --- Communicative disorders --- Disabilities --- Sensory disorders --- Oculists --- Physicians --- Blind people --- Blind persons --- Deafblind people --- Partially seeing persons --- Partially sighted persons --- Visually disabled persons --- Visually handicapped --- Visually impaired persons --- People with disabilities --- Eyesight --- Seeing --- Sight --- Senses and sensation --- Blindfolds --- Physiological optics --- Amaurosis --- Social aspects --- History --- Treatment --- Diseases --- Patients