Simon Hayhoe is an associate professor in the School of Education, University of Exeter and an associate of the Scottish Sensory Centre, University of Edinburgh. His writing focuses on visual impairment and visual culture, accessible and inclusive technologies, philosophies of sensory impairment and inclusion, and social science research methodology.

Introduction. Section 1: The Development of Western Knowledge on Blindness. Chapter 1: Blindness in Antiquity, Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Chapter 2: The Middle Ages through to the Enlightenment. Chapter 3: Late Eighteenth through to Twent-First Century Culture and Blindness. Section 2: Institutionalization, Visual Impairment and Non-Visual Culture. Chapter 4: The Foundation of Early Western Institutions for the Blind. Chapter 5: English Institutional Education of the Blind, 1999. Section 3: Studies of Visual Impairment and Visual Culture. Chapter 6: Case Studies of Learning Visual Culture after Losing Sight. Chapter 7: A Study of Blind and Visually Impaired Web Coders. Conclusion. References.