Sight Correction: Vision and Blindness in Eighteenth-Century Britain Mounsey Chris
Sight Correction: Vision and Blindness in Eighteenth-Century Britain Mounsey Chris The debut publication in a new series devoted to the body as an object of historical study, Sight Correction…
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Sight Correction: Vision and Blindness in Eighteenth-Century Britain Mounsey Chris
The debut publication in a new series devoted to the body as an object of historical study, Sight Correction provides an expansive analysis of blindness in eighteenth-century Britain, developing a new methodology for conceptualizing sight impairment. He then turns to accounts by the visually impaired themselves, exploring how Thomas Gills, John Maxwell, and Priscilla Pointon deployed literature strategically as a necessary response to the inadequacies of Poor Laws to support blind people. Beginning with a reconsideration of the place of sight correction as both idea and reality in eighteenth-century philosophical debates, Chris Mounsey traces the development of eye surgery by pioneers such as William Read, Mary Cater, and John Taylor, who developed a new idea of medical specialism that has shaped contemporary practices.
Situating blindness philosophically, medically, and