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Author Freund, Daniel.

Title American sunshine : diseases of darkness and the quest for natural light / Daniel Freund
Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012

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Contents 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
Summary 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
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject 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
sunlight.
NATURE -- Ecology.
NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
Sunshine
Climatotherapy
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Städer.
Ekologi.
Stadsplanering.
Stadssociologi.
Klimatoterapi.
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Förenta staterna.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226262833
0226262839
1280126086
9781280126086