Susan D. (mom2nine) reviewed For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind on + 342 more book reviews
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Excellent, well researched book. Some reviews have stated that she gives too much physical detail, but I think that it is fair to say that many of us have had few if any encounters with blind people. Mahoney asks the questions that we would all like answers to. Although she gives a history of the treatment of blind people, her writing flows and her descriptions are very well written. "Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses. We go through our day semi-oblivious to a whole range of sensory information because we are distracted and enslaved by our eyes." p 79
