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Fundamentals for Ophthalmic Technical Personnel.
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Fundamentals for Ophthalmic Technical Personnel. By Barbara Cassin. Pp 453 £37. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1995. ISBN0-7216-4931-9.
This is an ambitious book, written by 11 contributors from a variety of ophthalmic backgrounds compiled by Barbara Cassin with Dr Latif M Hamed as the medical content editor. Barbara Cassin was head of the orthoptic/ophthalmic technology training programmes at the University of Florida for 18 years.
Starting with basic ophthalmic sciences, neuroanatomy, and optics the aim is to provide the technician and technologist a basic knowledge of, and sources of, information about ophthalmic technical skills. These include orthoptics, …