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Blindness

Series name

London Line

Issue no

32

NoS ID

326213

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Dangerous Waters (1999 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

River blindness, or onchoceriasis, which affects 17m people in the tropics, is caused by a parasite spread by small blackflies. In an effort to eradicate the disease, scientists have discovered that subtle...

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Clinical Approach to Acquired Blindness in the Dog, A (1983 Multimedia)

Subject

Veterinary science

Distribution

Hire, Tape-slide. Audiocassette. ? min.; 29 slides., 1997 hire: £13.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Acquired blindness in a dog is an infrequent but challenging case for the veterinary surgeon. Reviews the most frequently encountered disease entities that are responsible for acquired loss of vision in the...

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Ekleipsis (1998 Video)

Director

Tran T Kim-Trang

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 22 min., 1999 sale: £70.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Combines the case histories of Cambodian women living in California and suffering from hysterical blindness (loss of sight with little or no physical cause that is brought about by traumatic stress) and the...

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Surgery for the Prevention of Blindness (1989 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 43 min., 1996 sale: £35.00 (inclusive)

Three individual programmes: CATARACT (20 min), UPPER LID ENTROPION (14 min), TRABECULECTOMY (9 min).

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Vision of the Blind, The (1976 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines a new way of understanding blindness and the blind, demonstrating a range of ways in which blind people are coping with their difficulties. Also highlights the problems of blind children.

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Insight (1996 Video)

Director

Georg Misch

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 9 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

An account of an attempt to represent the world as it appears to a man who has lost his sight. The world around him is a blur, but strong visual images of the things that are important to him live on in his...

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Visions: A Guide to Preventable Blindness (1996)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 25 minutes), £15.00 (hire) £75.00 (sale)

Examines six common eye conditions - glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, cataracts, macular degeneration, retinal detachment and amblyopia - which, if left undiagnosed and untreated, can lead to permanent loss...

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Quiet Tunnel, The: Ushers Syndrome Video with Subtitles (2000 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. ? min., 2001 sale: £100.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Made in conjunction with SENSE, the national Deaf-Blind Rubella Association, this video is about Usher Syndrome, a condition that affects some deaf people causing night blindness and loss of peripheral...

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Corneal Grafting

Date released

1971

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

77

NoS ID

351183

Story no

4 / 4

COI synopsis: A surgical operation on the eye - and a very delicate one. The cornea is a transparent disc through which light passes into the eye; damage it and blindness can result. Working with the aid of...

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