Life unseen : a story of blindness

Title Life unseen : a story of blindness
Names Mills, Selina.
Mills, Selina (Journalist), narrator.
Book Number DB120671
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
Annotation "Imagine a world without sight. Is it dark and gloomy? Is it terrifying and isolating? Or is it simply a state of not seeing, which we have demonised and sentimentalized over the centuries? 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. From the blind poet Homer, through the myths and moralising of early medieval culture to the scientific and medical discoveries of the Enlightenment and modern times, the story of blindness turns out to be a story of our whole culture"-- Provided by publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Narrator Mills, Selina.
Local Subject Social groups - 305
Disability Interest - DII
Visual Disability Interest - DIV
Biography and Autobiography - BIO
Biography - Notable Women - BIW
Biography - Individuals w/ Disabilities - BID
History - United States - HUS
History, U.S.- 21st Century - HUF
Medicine & Health - MED
Medicine - Specific Conditions - MES
Macular Degeneration - MMD
Biography - Contemporary - BIC
Female Narrator - FN
Exclusion - Short Book - SH
Current Talking Book Topics - TBT
LC Subject Blind - History
Blind - Biography
Talking books
Nonfiction
Call Number 305.9081 ANF
Language English
Original Publication Reissue of: 2023 9781004137428 2023
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