published_or_final_version / Medical Sciences / Master / Master of Medical Sciences

Thesis (M. Sc. Med.)--Discipline of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, 2007. / Title from title screen (viewed June 20, 2007). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Medicine to the Faculty of Medicine. Degree awarded 2007; thesis submitted 2005. Includes bibliography. Also issued in print.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, Discipline of Genetics, 2005? / "September, 2004" Bibliography: p. 119-136.

Inaugural-dissertation, Medizinische Fakultät der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, 1900.

Thesis (M.Eng.). / Title from title page of PDF (viewed 2008/01/30). Written for the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Northeastern University, 2008. / Title from title page (viewed March 3, 2009). Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Psychology. Includes bibliographical references (p. [80]-91).

Inaug.-Diss.--Berlin. / "Lebenslauf".

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 26, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Dissertation advisor: Dr. Gang Yao. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.Med.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Also available in print.

In the period between 1500 to 1700 in Europe, comprehension of the eye’s anatomy, physiology, and pathology significantly expanded, and the relationship between the human eye and knowledge was also fundamentally reformulated. This dissertation tells the story of this transformation through the intersection between medicine and art, and via the eyes and hands of a group of medical and artisanal practitioners in the German speaking lands. From the sixteenth century onwards, an increasing number of people from diverse social classes and professions were engaged in investigating the structure, workings, and disorders of the eye, including surgeons, artisans, physicians, and natural philosophers. Manifold ways of knowing formed ophthalmic knowledge, from practical making and doing to theoretical construction. The understandings and findings were communicated through a wide range of media, not only in texts, but also frequently via images and objects, such as illustrated books, anatomical models, prostheses, and optical devices. They were widely circulated across Europe and collected by scholars, amateurs, and princely rulers alike. Surgeons and artisans were among the most notable yet understudied groups of investigators in this endeavor. They shared expertise in materials, proficiency in manual work, and modes of investigating nature through bodily engagement. With their close collaboration to create pictures and artifacts, they were instrumental in developing insights about the eye. Their image- and object-making put forward a persistent claim about the value of their embodied and experiential knowledge, through which these practitioners undermined the traditional hierarchy of professional structures and scholarly knowledge systems. Knowledge of the eye not only constituted a critical branch of artistic and medical investigation, but was also of wider cultural and epistemological significance. To understand the structure and function of the eye was to reflect on the very foundation of knowledge.