American sunshine : diseases of darkness and the quest for natural light /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Freund, Daniel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Temas:
Sunshine > Environmental aspects.
Urban ecology (Sociology) > United States.
Climatotherapy.
Sunshine.
Sunlight
Environmental Policy > history
City Planning > history
Facility Design and Construction > history
Heliotherapy > history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Lumière solaire > Aspect de l'environnement.
Écologie urbaine > États-Unis.
Climatothérapie.
Lumière solaire.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
sunlight.
NATURE > Ecology.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
Sunshine
Climatotherapy
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Städer.
Ekologi.
Stadsplanering.
Stadssociologi.
Klimatoterapi.
United States
Förenta staterna.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Toward a history of natural light
  • The darkening city, 1850-1920
  • The dawn of scientific sunlight
  • Sun cures
  • Popular enthusiasms: eugenists, nudists, builders, modern mothers, and the sun cult
  • Climate tourism and its alternative
  • Epilogue: sunlight into the twenty-first century.

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