American Sunshine : Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light /

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In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these new conditions with claims about a rising tide of...

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Autor principal: Freund, Daniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2012]
Temas:
Climatotherapy.
Sunshine > Environmental aspects.
Urban ecology (Sociology) > United States.
HISTORY / General.
sunlight, natural light, healthcare, medicine, tuberculosis, rickets, smog, pollution, urban, industrialization, city, industry, factories, nudism, architecture, public housing, health, tourism, travel, commodities, nature, consumerism, environment, climatotherapy, ecology, sociology, poverty, disease, nonfiction, history, politics, eugenics, sun cult, climate, reform, tenements, worlds fair, exhibition, tanning beds, seasonal affective disorder, urbanization.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Toward a History of Natural Light
  • 1. The Darkening City, 1850-1920
  • 2. The Dawn of Scientific Sunlight
  • 3. Sun Cures
  • 4. Popular Enthusiasms: Eugenists, Nudists, Builders, Modern Mothers, and the Sun Cult
  • 5. Climate Tourism and Its Alternative
  • Epilogue: Sunlight into the Twenty-First Century
  • Notes
  • Index

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