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Ophthalmology --- Paediatrics --- Child, Preschool. --- Child. --- Infant. --- Blindness. --- pediatrie --- blindheid --- Blindness, Acquired --- Blindness, Complete --- Blindness, Hysterical --- Blindness, Transient --- Amaurosis --- Blindness, Legal --- Blindness, Monocular --- Acquired Blindness --- Amauroses --- Complete Blindness --- Hysterical Blindness --- Legal Blindness --- Monocular Blindness --- Transient Blindness --- Visually Impaired Persons --- Infants --- Children --- Minors --- Children, Preschool --- Preschool Child --- Preschool Children --- Bilateral Blindness --- Blindness Bilateral --- Blindness Transient --- Blindness Unilateral --- Blindness, Bilateral --- Blindness, Unilateral --- Sudden Visual Loss --- Unilateral Blindness --- Visual Loss Sudden --- Bilateral Blindnesses --- Sudden Visual Losses --- Sudden, Visual Loss --- Transient, Blindness --- Unilateral, Blindness --- Visual Loss Suddens --- Visual Loss, Sudden --- Child, Preschool --- Child --- Infant --- Blindness

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He knew he was going blind. While his sight slowly faded, he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West until, nearly fifty years old, Robert Hine lost his vision completely. When, fifteen years later, a dangerous eye operation restored partial vision and returned Hine to the world of the sighted, "the trauma seemed instructive enough" to prompt him to begin a journal. That journal is the heart of Second Sight, an engaging, sensitively written account of Hine's journey into darkness and out again. The first parts are told simply, with little anguish and no self-pity. The emotion comes when sight returns; like a child he discovers the world and its beauty anew - the intensity of colors, the sadness of faces grown older, the renewed excitement of sex and the body. With fine understanding and humorous insights that come from living on both sides of the divide, Hine ponders the relations of sighted and unsighted people. His personal search for the meaning of blindness is enriched and made universal by a discourse with other contemporary blind writers. When the author turns to humorist James Thurber, Buchenwald prisoner Jacques Lusseyran, novelist Eleanor Clark, journalist Sally Wagner, poet Jorge Luis Borges, and teacher John Hull, he clearly relishes the kinship of a brilliant, opinionated family that "apparently can't agree on much but actually agrees on a great deal." With them he shares thoughts on the acceptance and advantages of blindness, resentment of the blind, the blind as "the darlings of the handicapped," the reluctance with sex, explanations for shadow vision, and the psychological depression that often follows the recovery of sight. But Hine's professional and personal life is the heart of his narrative. His blindness was the altered state in which to learn and live, and his deliverance from blindness the spur to seek and share its lessons. What he found makes a wonderful story that embraces all of us - those who can see and those who cannot.

Blind --- Blindness --- Hine, Robert V., --- Health. --- Blindness, Acquired --- Blindness, Complete --- Blindness, Hysterical --- Blindness, Transient --- Amaurosis --- Blindness, Legal --- Blindness, Monocular --- Acquired Blindness --- Amauroses --- Complete Blindness --- Hysterical Blindness --- Legal Blindness --- Monocular Blindness --- Transient Blindness --- Visually Impaired Persons --- Hine, Robert --- Health --- United States --- Biography --- Hine, Robert V., 1921- - Health. --- Blind - United States - Biography. --- Bilateral Blindness --- Blindness Bilateral --- Blindness Transient --- Blindness Unilateral --- Blindness, Bilateral --- Blindness, Unilateral --- Sudden Visual Loss --- Unilateral Blindness --- Visual Loss Sudden --- Bilateral Blindnesses --- Sudden Visual Losses --- Sudden, Visual Loss --- Transient, Blindness --- Unilateral, Blindness --- Visual Loss Suddens --- Visual Loss, Sudden --- Hine, Robert Van Norden, --- altered perception. --- american west. --- autobiography. --- blind. --- blindness. --- courage. --- disability. --- eleanor clark. --- emotions. --- graduate school. --- history professor. --- james thurber. --- jorge lois borges. --- life changes. --- living life. --- lost vision. --- meaning of blindness. --- memoir. --- partial vision. --- personal experiences. --- personal story. --- psychological depression. --- recovery of sight. --- recovery. --- returned sight. --- risky eye operation. --- seeing. --- sensation. --- trauma.

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Blind --- People with visual disabilities --- Blindness --- Education, Special --- Vision Disorders --- Education --- Rehabilitation --- rehabilitation --- Education. --- Rehabilitation. --- Partially seeing persons --- Partially sighted persons --- Vision disorders --- Visually disabled persons --- Visually handicapped --- Visually impaired persons --- Blind people --- Blind persons --- Education of the blind --- Patients --- People with disabilities --- Deafblind people --- Services for --- Employment --- Blindness. --- Education, Special. --- Vision Disorders. --- Périodique électronique (Descripteur de forme) --- Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme) --- Non-voyant. --- Handicapé visuel. --- Éducation. --- Éducation spéciale. --- Réadaptation. --- Sehbehindertenpädagogik --- Zeitschrift --- rehabilitation. --- Periodikum --- Zeitschriften --- Presse --- Fortlaufendes Sammelwerk --- Sehbehinderter --- Sehgeschädigtenpädagogik --- Sonderpädagogik --- Blindenpädagogik --- 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 --- Special Education --- Educations, Special --- Special Educations --- Disabled Persons --- Blindness, Acquired --- Blindness, Complete --- Blindness, Hysterical --- Blindness, Transient --- Amaurosis --- Bilateral Blindness --- Blindness Bilateral --- Blindness Transient --- Blindness Unilateral --- Blindness, Bilateral --- Blindness, Legal --- Blindness, Monocular --- Blindness, Unilateral --- Sudden Visual Loss --- Unilateral Blindness --- Visual Loss Sudden --- Acquired Blindness --- Amauroses --- Bilateral Blindnesses --- Complete Blindness --- Hysterical Blindness --- Legal Blindness --- Monocular Blindness --- Sudden Visual Losses --- Sudden, Visual Loss --- Transient Blindness --- Transient, Blindness --- Unilateral, Blindness --- Visual Loss Suddens --- Visual Loss, Sudden --- Visually Impaired Persons --- Erziehung --- Sehbehindertenpädagogik. --- Zeitschrift. --- Sehgeschädigtenpädagogik --- Sonderpädagogik --- Blindenpädagogik --- Personnes aveugles --- Éducation --- Réadaptation

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Finalist for the 2010 Minnesota Book Award presented by the Friends of the Saint Paul Public LibraryMara Faulkner grew up in a family shaped by Irish ancestry, a close-to-the-bone existence in rural North Dakota, and the secret of her father's blindness—along with the silence and shame surrounding it. Dennis Faulkner had retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disease that gradually blinded him and one that may blind many members of his family, including the author. Moving and insightful, Going Blind explores blindness in its many permutations—within the context of the author's family, more broadly, as a disability marked by misconceptions, and as a widely used cultural metaphor. Mara Faulkner delicately weaves her family's story into an analysis of the roots and ramifications of the various metaphorical meanings of blindness, touching on the Catholic Church of the 1940s and 1950s, Japanese internment, the Germans from Russia who dominated her hometown, and the experiences of Native people in North Dakota. Neither sentimental nor dispassionate, the author asks whether it's possible to find gifts when sight is lost.

Children of blind parents --- Vision Disorders --- Eye Diseases, Hereditary --- Eye Diseases --- Sensation Disorders --- Diseases --- Neurologic Manifestations --- Nervous System Diseases --- Retinitis Pigmentosa --- Blindness --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Family & Marriage --- Blindness, Acquired --- Blindness, Complete --- Blindness, Hysterical --- Blindness, Transient --- Amaurosis --- Bilateral Blindness --- Blindness, Bilateral --- Blindness, Legal --- Blindness, Monocular --- Blindness, Unilateral --- Sudden Visual Loss --- Unilateral Blindness --- Acquired Blindness --- Amauroses --- Bilateral Blindnesses --- Complete Blindness --- Hysterical Blindness --- Legal Blindness --- Monocular Blindness --- Sudden Visual Losses --- Transient Blindness --- Visual Loss, Sudden --- Visually Impaired Persons --- Pigmentary Retinopathy --- Tapetoretinal Degeneration --- Pigmentary Retinopathies --- Retinopathies, Pigmentary --- Retinopathy, Pigmentary --- Tapetoretinal Degenerations --- Tangier Disease --- Nervous System Disorders --- Neurological Disorders --- Neurologic Disorders --- Disease, Nervous System --- Diseases, Nervous System --- Disorder, Nervous System --- Disorder, Neurologic --- Disorder, Neurological --- Disorders, Nervous System --- Disorders, Neurologic --- Disorders, Neurological --- Nervous System Disease --- Nervous System Disorder --- Neurologic Disorder --- Neurological Disorder --- Neurology --- Focal Neurologic Deficits --- Manifestations, Neurologic --- Manifestations, Neurological --- Neurologic Dysfunction --- Neurologic Findings --- Neurologic Manifestation --- Neurologic Signs --- Neurologic Symptoms --- Neurological Manifestations --- Neurologic Deficits --- Neurologic Signs and Symptoms --- Deficit, Focal Neurologic --- Deficit, Neurologic --- Deficits, Focal Neurologic --- Deficits, Neurologic --- Dysfunction, Neurologic --- Dysfunctions, Neurologic --- Finding, Neurologic --- Findings, Neurologic --- Focal Neurologic Deficit --- Manifestation, Neurologic --- Manifestation, Neurological --- Neurologic Deficit --- Neurologic Deficit, Focal --- Neurologic Deficits, Focal --- Neurologic Dysfunctions --- Neurologic Finding --- Neurologic Sign --- Neurologic Symptom --- Neurological Manifestation --- Sign, Neurologic --- Signs, Neurologic --- Symptom, Neurologic --- Symptoms, Neurologic --- Nervous System --- Sensory Disorders --- Special Senses Disorders --- Sensation Disorder --- Senses Disorder, Special --- Senses Disorders, Special --- Sensory Disorder --- Special Senses Disorder --- Eye Disorders --- Eye Disease --- Eye Disorder --- Ophthalmology --- Hereditary Eye Diseases --- Eye Disease, Hereditary --- Hereditary 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 --- Blind parents' children --- Blind parents --- Faulkner, Mara.