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‘They Shall See His Face’: Blindness in British India, 1850–1950

This paper explores the social, medical, institutional and enumerative histories of blindness in British India from 1850 to 1950. It begins by tracing the contours and causes of blindness using census records, and then outlines how colonial physicians and observers ascribed both infectious aetiologi...

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Autor principal: Nair, Aparna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5426299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28260563
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2017.1