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A brief overview of contact lenses:

Contact lenses are plastic coverings that fit directly onto the eye to correct vision. They obviate the need for glasses and come close to completely integrating with the eye so the user hardly feels them and they're invisible to others.

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Background

• Contact Lenses: The Types - What are hard and soft contacts anyway?
• Contact Lenses: Potential Problems - When things go poorly...
• Contact Lenses: User Breakdown - How many million Americans wear contacts?

What knowledge and materials come together to create contact lenses?

• Contact Lenses: Physical Analysis - A look at the physics behind optics
• Contact Lenses: Chemical Analysis - A look at disinfectants and their role in society
• Contact Lenses: Biological Analysis - A look at problems with the eye and in our biology
• Contact Lenses: Manufacturing - The advent of plastics

How do plastics connect with the mega-machine that is the US?

• Contact Lenses: Distribution - Pharmacies and FDA controls

Why contacts and not something else?

• Contact Lenses: Alternatives - Lasik eye surgery isn't for everyone
• Athleticism and Vision - Glasses and football don't mix

What social work do contacts do?: Contacts, Glasses and Physical Attraction

• Steve Urkel: A case study - How glasses describe a youngster's life
• Attraction and Personal Definition - The social work of glasses and contacts

Attraction Survey Contact Lenses: Survey - What my dorm thinks of people who wear glasses

Other

• Contact Lenses: Testimonials - General Comments
• Contact Lenses: bibliography
• Integration Journal
• Integration Proposal

for a really good history and description of contact lenses check out the wikipedia description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_lens

Other things

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Posted at Mar 21/2006 03:14PM:
Meghan Kennedy: you might want to look at teh history of contacts a little more...such as why they were created. was it just so people didn't have to wear glasses (an aesthetic thing) or was there some other reason why contacts were necessary/better than glasses. If we didn't have contacts and everyone had to wear glasses, would this be a problem? I can't think of anyting, but perhaps there are situations when contacts are better suited to doing an activity than contacts.

research questions [Contact Lenses: Images and graphs]