This dissertation is divided into three chapters, all originating from original fieldwork. Chapter One explores the impacts of blindness on blind subjects, their caretakers and their households in Amhara Region, Ethiopia, and demand for cataract surgery among those eligible for …
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The title of this collection of poems stands as the paradoxical answer to the question of what blues and blindness has come to mean to the author. As elaborated upon in the critical preface, this same paradox also answers many questions generated in and by the poems in the colle…
Dual sensory impairment or 'deafblindness' imposes a special quality of engagement between the self and the social world. Yet novels, which specialise in the exploration of human subjectivity, have failed spectacularly to capture this. This thesis analyses the gap in representat…
Blindness in the Literature of Orhan Pamuk, Ernesto Sábato, José Saramago examines three important texts by three well-known contemporary authors: My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk; the chapter « Report on the Blind » from the novel On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sábato; and Blindne…
The field of Disability Studies (DS) generally avoids addressing the problem of suffering and disability due to the long history of harmful stereotyping of disability as being a bad state of existence. When suffering is addressed, it tends to be conceptualized and criticized as …
In the mid-1250s, King Louis IX founded one of the first hospitals for the permanently disabled in western Europe which became known as the Quinze-Vingts because of the three hundred blind residents and sighted guides that he intended it to house. This foundation occurred in Par…
The goal of this study is to explore specialized and popular cultural models of trachoma, and the interaction between the trachoma elimination program and its target audience in one trachoma hyper-endemic intervention community. Eighty four million people worldwide, mainly child…