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By Robert V. Hine. 203 pp. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 1993. $20. ISBN 0-520-08195-1.

Close your eyes and imagine a way to finish reading this review. For most of us, the loss of useful vision would make the practice of our profession an impossibility. We often take our sight for granted until we are faced with its loss. Second Sight is a compassionate account of a man confronting incremental loss of vision as a young adult from uveitis associated with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. The uveitis eventually caused the author to lose his sight in his 40s. As both a writer and a professor of history, he chronicles his gradual entry into the world of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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