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People with alexithymia also show a limited ability to experience positive emotions leading Krystal [114] and Sifneos (1987) to describe many of these individuals as anhedonic. [ 16 ] Alexisomia is a clinical concept that refers to the difficulty in the awareness and expression of somatic, or bodily, sensations. [ 115 ]
This autobiography was later discovered by Zina Weygand in the hospital's archives, and with the assistance of Catherine Kudlick, Weygand translated the work and published it as Reflections: The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France. The book is known for being the first French-language book by a blind person ...
In Letter on the Blind for the Use of those who can see (French: Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient, 1749), Denis Diderot takes on the question of visual perception, a subject that, at the time, experienced a resurgence of interest due to the success of medical procedures that allowed surgeons to operate on cataracts (demonstrated in 1728 by William Cheselden and 1747 by ...
Race may be an automatic factor in visually categorizing others, but for the blind, it's a much more complex undertaking. Sociologist Asia Friedman, who teaches at the University of Delaware ...
Even though people of all ages may be affected by Charles Bonnet syndrome, those within the age range of 70 to 80 are primarily affected. [4] Among older adults (> 65 years) with significant vision loss, the prevalence of Charles Bonnet syndrome has been reported to be between 10% and 40%; a 2008 Australian study found the prevalence to be 17.5 ...
"The Country of the Blind" by H. G. Wells tells the story of a mountaineer who finds himself stranded in an isolated valley inhabited entirely by blind people. Remembering the proverb, "In the Country of the Blind the One-eyed Man is King", he attempts to establish himself as ruler of the country, but finds himself unable to explain the concept ...
According to literary review aggregator Book Marks, the novel received reviews the site characterized as "Rave" and "Positive". [1]In a starred review, Publishers Weekly wrote, "At the core of [Leland's] inquiry are the paradoxes of disability: how does one understand blindness as both an impairment and a 'neutral characteristic,' and how can Leland accept his 'new identity' as both central ...
Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortune of a handful of unnamed characters who are among the first to be stricken with blindness, including an ophthalmologist, several of his patients, and assorted others, who are thrown together by chance.