American Sunshine - Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light

Klappentext In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. As hulking new buildings overspread blocks and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun, and doctors began to note a resurgence of diseases of darkness like rickets and tuberculosis. This book tracks the American obsession with sunlight. Zusammenfassung In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. As hulking new buildings overspread blocks and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun, and doctors began to note a resurgence of diseases of darkness like rickets and tuberculosis. This book tracks the American obsession with sunlight.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Freund, Freund Daniel
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.2012
• EAN: 9780226262819
• ISBN: 978-0-226-26281-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, MEDICAL / Public Health, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Public health & preventive medicine, Urban communities, Public health and preventive medicine