American sunshine : diseases of darkness and the quest for natural light /
Freund, Daniel.
American sunshine : diseases of darkness and the quest for natural light / Daniel Freund. - Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012. - 1 online resource
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 the "diseases of darkness," especially rickets and tuberculosis. In American Sunshine, Daniel Freund tracks the obsession with sunlight from those bleak days into the twentieth century. Before long, social reformers, medical professionals, scientists, and a growing nudist movement proffered remedi
9780226262833 (electronic bk.) 0226262839 (electronic bk.) 1280126086 9781280126086
352994 MIL
016014575 Uk
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.
Climatotherapy.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Städer.
Ekologi.
Stadsplanering.
Stadssociologi.
Klimatoterapi.
United States
United States.
Förenta staterna.
Electronic books.
QC911 / .F83 2012eb
577.5/6
QT 11 AA1 / F889a 2012
American sunshine : diseases of darkness and the quest for natural light / Daniel Freund. - Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012. - 1 online resource
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 the "diseases of darkness," especially rickets and tuberculosis. In American Sunshine, Daniel Freund tracks the obsession with sunlight from those bleak days into the twentieth century. Before long, social reformers, medical professionals, scientists, and a growing nudist movement proffered remedi
9780226262833 (electronic bk.) 0226262839 (electronic bk.) 1280126086 9781280126086
352994 MIL
016014575 Uk
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.
Climatotherapy.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Städer.
Ekologi.
Stadsplanering.
Stadssociologi.
Klimatoterapi.
United States
United States.
Förenta staterna.
Electronic books.
QC911 / .F83 2012eb
577.5/6
QT 11 AA1 / F889a 2012