Eyes by Hand Prosthetics of Art and Healing

A personal and intimate view of the craft of eye-making.

This is a book about artificial eyes—about the artisans and artists who make them, and about the life-changing and sometimes life-saving experience of wearing them, as author Dan Roche has done for 15 years. Eye making is done by hand, for one person at a time, by a very small number of ocularists (fewer than 200 in the US); it is a slow, intricate, and unusually intimate process of molding, fitting, and painting that brings ocularist and patient together for many hours or even days.

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In an engaging, frankly fascinating fashion, Roche captures the intricacies of a profession whose techniques and culture have been remarkably consistent for 200 years. He explores, too, how that profession may now be facing a digital transformation in the form of scan-print-mail possibilities. Such a change might make prosthetic eyes more easily and cheaply available, though it may also risk the aesthetic qualities and intimate connection fundamental to the process of healing.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Roche Dan, Dan Roche
• Verlag: The MIT Press
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.08.2025
• Thema: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Allgemeines
• EAN: 9780262049832
• ISBN: 978-0-262-04983-2
• Anzahl Seiten: 198
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.4 cm
• Themen: MEDICAL / Physician & Patient, Ophthalmology, MEDICAL / Optometry, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Biomedical, biotechnology, doctor/patient relationship, Biomedical engineering, Optometry / opticians, Doctor / patient relationship