Corporatization in Ophthalmology

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Sweatshops and the Corporatization of the University

In the spring of 2000, student activists mobilized an anti-sweatshop campaign at the university where I teach. They joined student activists at campuses across the USA and Canada who, since 1997, have been protesting the sweatshop conditions under which much athletic wear bearing university logos is produced (Featherstone, 2000). Their activism has placed them in direct con ict with the univer...

Ophthalmology

This recent addition to the Clio Medica series is very welcome for several reasons. It is almost unique, for the only other histories of ophthalmology in English are a very short essay by Sorsby and an article by Shastid in the American Encyclopedia of Ophthalmology. The brevity of Chance's history has excluded a separate bibliography, yet the author has managed to include mention in the text o...

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Ophthalmology

?Myopia is an error of refraction, due to elongation of the-yeball, and its conditions vary with its degree. When it does n?t exceed four or five dioptres it is of little disadvantage, excePt to those who wish to enter the public services, or whose 0ccupations require particularly good far vision ; but as the amount increases, it causes more and more damage to the 'gnt, until in its high degree...