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BENNETT AND RABBETT'S CLINICAL VISUAL OPTICS
Bennett and Rabbett's Clinical Visual OpticsTo order this title, and for more information, click here
Fourth Edition

By
Ronald Rabbetts, MSc, SMSA, FBCOptom, DCLP, Practising Ophthalmic Optician, Portsmouth; Clinical Supervisor, Institute of Optometry, London, UK

Description
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. The fourth edition of this classic textbook has been brought thoroughly up to date with revised chapters on Ocular Aberrations, Visual Examination of the Eye, and Distribution and Ocular Dioptics of Ametropia. New contributors have been added and the book has been completely redesigned using colour to offer a more accessible layout and enhance the many line illustrations. The new CD Rom has valuable additional resources including a simulation of subjective refraction, video clips showing clinical procedures and extra appendices to the book.

Audience
Practising and student optometrists; dispensing and trainee dispensing opticians.

Contents
List of symbols Chapter 1 General introduction Chapter 2 The eye?s optical system Chapter 3 Visual acuity and contrast sensitivity Chapter 4 Spherical ametropia Chapter 5 Astigmatism Chapter 6 Subjective Refraction Chapter 7 Accommodation and near vision. The inadequate-stimulus myopias Chapter 8 Ocular motility and binocular vision Chapter 9 Convergence Chapter 10 Anomalies of binocular vision: heterophoria and heterotropia Chapter 11 Stereopsis and the stereoscope Chapter 12 The schematic eye Chapter 13 Subsidiary effects of correcting lenses; magnifying devices Chapter 14 Anisometropia and aniseikonia Chapter 15 Ocular aberrations Chapter 16 Visual examination of the eye and ophthalmoscopy Chapter 17 Retinoscopy (skiascopy) Chapter 18 Objective optometers Chapter 19 Vision screening, new subjective refractors and techniques Chapter 20 Measurement of ocular dimensions Chapter 21 Distribution and ocular dioptrics of ametropia Chapter 22 Entoptic phenomena Appendix A A suggested routine examination procedure Appendix B The Bennett-Rabbetts schematic eye, relaxed and accommodated 10D and in italics for historical reference, the Gullstrand-Emsley relaxed schematic eye General bibliography Answers Index

Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 488 pages, publication date: JUL-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8874-1
ISBN-10: 0-7506-8874-2
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN


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