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Why we see what we do
The visual system has developed to allow us to navigate in a complex and dangerous world in order to find food and to avoid danger. This survival system works by building a complex three-dimensional model based on two-dimensional ...
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Visual Perception
The eye, although a critical component of sight, is not where vision occurs. The ability to interpret the signals generated in the eye by the brain allows for the perception of vision. Sight is a complex sense requiring ...
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Vision and the Artist
Visual disorders affect the way we see, and therefore would be expected to influence how we depict the world in drawings and paintings. This fascinating subject is explored using images created by artists with known defects. We ...
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Twenty-first Century Threats: Tuberculosis
This lecture is a part of the series Twenty-First Century Threats. Other lectures in this series include the following:
HIV/AIDS
Malaria
Lyme Disease
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Transplantation and the Eye
The first successful solid organ transplant was the cornea in Moravia in 1905. However both science and clinical tools then available were unable to allow further advances. The discovery of the natural barriers to transplantation enabled understanding of the biology ...
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The Window on the Soul
Vision is the dominant sense through which sighted people have developed our culture. It requires enormous computational power: over half of the human brain is assigned to create vision from the electrical impulses generated by light. Since ...
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The Rule of Law and its Enemies: The Landscape of Law [The 2012 BBC Reith Lecture]
The historian Niall Ferguson delivers a lecture, recorded at Gresham College in the heart of legal London, addressing the relationship between the nature of law and economic success. He examines the rule of law in comparative terms, asking how ...
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The Origins of the NHS
This lecture looks at the origins of the NHS; there have been many historical debates about the NHS and its origins. Such questions which are discussed are the debate about conflict or consensus. Did the NHS come about through ...
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The Iconography of Blindness: How artists have portrayed the blind
Blind people have always been with us. The attitudes of societies has varied over the years from disgust and horror to sympathy and kindness.
How a painter depicts whether a subject cannot see in contrast to those who can ...
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The Human Eye and Vision
This introduction to the series covers the structure and function of the human eye. The historical concept of the eye as a simple image-forming device has been transformed to the modern view of the eye as a sophisticated image-processing ...
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The History of Cataract Surgery
The commonest operation in the world is responsible for restoring sight to millions of blind and visually disabled people every year. From humble beginnings in India over 2,000 years ago it was refined by French surgeons in the Enlightenment. Over ...
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The Future of London's Hospitals
Part of the Safeguarding London's Health, Monday's at One lecture series.
Other lectures in this series are:
Medieval Hospitals of London, by William Ayliffe FRCS PhD
The Origins ...
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