‘They Shall See His Face’: Blindness in British India, 1850–1950
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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 aetiologies and social pathologies to blindness. Blindness was often interpreted as the inevitable consequ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical History
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0025-7273,2048-8343
DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2017.1