TY  - BOOK
AU  - Freund,Daniel
TI  - American sunshine: diseases of darkness and the quest for natural light 
SN  - 9780226262833
AV  - QC911 .F83 2012eb
U1  - 577.5/6 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Sunshine
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Urban ecology (Sociology)
KW  - United States
KW  - Climatotherapy
KW  - Sunlight
KW  - Environmental Policy
KW  - history
KW  - City Planning
KW  - Facility Design and Construction
KW  - Heliotherapy
KW  - History, 19th Century
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - Lumière solaire
KW  - Aspect de l'environnement
KW  - Écologie urbaine
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Climatothérapie
KW  - Médecine
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - sunlight
KW  - aat
KW  - NATURE
KW  - Ecology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Ecosystems & Habitats
KW  - Wilderness
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Environmental Science
KW  - Life Sciences
KW  - fast
KW  - Städer
KW  - sao
KW  - Ekologi
KW  - Stadsplanering
KW  - Stadssociologi
KW  - Klimatoterapi
KW  - Förenta staterna
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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