1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791827903321

Titolo

Eye infections, blindness and myopia / / Jeffrey Higgins and Dominique Truax, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Nova Biomedical Books, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-61209-766-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Eye and vision research developments series

Altri autori (Persone)

HigginsJeffrey

TruaxDominique

Disciplina

617.7/1

Soggetti

Eye - Infections

Blindness

Myopia

Drug resistance in microorganisms

Ophthalmic drugs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Role of endotamponading substances in the management of endophthalmitis / Javier A. Montero ... [et al.] -- Etiological agents of keratitis : an epidemiological study from a tertiary care center / S. Malhotra, D.K. Mehta and P. Kumar -- Design and implementation of a randomized myopia intervention trial testing the efficacy of atropine and multi-focal lenses / Yung-Feng Shih ... [et al.] -- Surgical treatment for myopic mascular retinoschisis / Takayuki Baba and Shuichi Yamamoto -- Refractive, topographic and biometric changes after scleral buckling / Carlos Alexandre de Amorim Garcia ... [et al.] -- Limitations of current antibiotics for ocular infections / Keith W. Ward, Heleen H. DeCory and Praveen Tyle -- Eye infections : causes, effects and treatment / Kitthisak Kitthaweesin ... [et al.].

Ocular bacterial infections / Hiroshi Toshida and Chikako Suto -- Primary congenital glaucoma : a review / Jaime Levy -- Surgery anesthesia and blindness / Vincenzo Fodale ... [et al.] -- "Laser correction of myopia" / Leopoldo Spadea and Lucia Di Genova -- Atropine controlling myopic progression in Taiwanese schoolchildren /



Yung-Feng Shih ... [et al.] -- An ON and OFF solution for myopia : how the ionic balance underlying retinal ON and OFF systems affects ocular growth / Melanie J. Murphy, Sheila G. Crewther and David P. Crewther -- Novel therapies for bacterial keratitis / Mary E. Marquart, Quincy C. Moore III and Richard J. O'Callaghan.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778074903321

Autore

McDonald Peter D

Titolo

The literature police [[electronic resource] ] : apartheid censorship and its cultural consequences / / Peter D. McDonald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-12612-1

9786612126123

0-19-155784-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Classificazione

18.12

Disciplina

363.310968

820.9968

Soggetti

Censorship - South Africa - History

South African literature - Censorship

Apartheid - South Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-399) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Note to the Reader; Introduction; Part I: Creating Spaces/Guarding Borders; Part II: Singular Situations/Disruptive Moments; Postscript; Chronology; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Uncovers the tangled stories of censorship and literature in apartheid South Africa, drawing on a wealth of new evidence from censorship archives, archives of resistance publishers and writers' groups, and oral testimony. A unique perspective on one of the most repressive, anachronistic, and racist states in the post-war era. - ;'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.' As the history of many repressive regimes shows, this vital borderline has seldom been so



clearly demarcated. Just how murky it can some