Life Unseen
Life Unseen Imagine a world without sight. Is it terrifying and isolating? Is it dark and gloomy? And why is blindness so frightening?In this fascinating historical adventure, Broadcaster and author…
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Life Unseen
Imagine a world without sight. Is it terrifying and isolating? Is it dark and gloomy?
And why is blindness so frightening?In this fascinating historical adventure, Broadcaster and author Selina Mills takes us on a journey through the history of blindness in Western Culture to discover that blindness is not so dark after all.Inspired by her own experience of losing her sight as she forged a successful journalistic career, Life Unseen takes us through a personal and unsentimental historical quest through the lives, stories and achievements of blind people - as well as those sighted people who sought to patronize, demonize and fix them. Or is it simply a state of not seeing, which we have demonised and sentimentalized over the centuries? From the blind poet Homer, through the myths and moralising of early medieval culture to the scientific and medical