Gemma Almond-Brown

Gebundenes Buch

Spectacles and the Victorians

Measuring, defining and shaping visual capacity

Beschreibung

This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non-medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices. -- .

Autor

Gemma Almond-Brown is an Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University and Research Development Officer at National Museum Wales

Produktdetails

• Social Histories of Medicine
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781526161352
• ISBN-10: 1526161354
• Artikelnr.: 67197476