Stories
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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The unimprovable white cane
Recent technological additions to the white cane aim to make the world easier for visually impaired people to navigate. Alex Lee explores whether new is really better.
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How shame makes us sick
The fight-or-flight response can have long-term consequences for our bodies if left unchecked. Lucia Osborne-Crowley investigates how shame and trauma are connected, and how both can lead to chronic ill health.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Manuscript notes on 'Day to day repeatability of (Night Vision) Tests. Soldier's variability percentage'; report of US National Research Council Division of Medical Sciences Committee on Aviation Medicine on 'Frequency of seeing at low illuminations' by H.K. Hartline and R. McDonald, January 1943, 8pp typescript + figures; miscellaneous graphs, notes and calculations
Date: 1943Reference: GC/179/A.79Part of: Bates, John A.V., and the Ratio Club- Books
Normal and defective colour vision / edited by J.D. Mollon, J. Pokorny, and K. Knoblauch.
Date: 2003- Books
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Test types for determining the acuteness of vision / drawn up by George Cowell.
Cowell, George.Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Videos
Vision in childhood.
Date: 1991- Books
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Test-types for the determinination [i.e. determination] of the acuteness of vision / by H. Snellen.
Snellen, H. (Herman), 1834-1908.Date: 1862