Soaking Up the Rays - Light Therapy and Visual Culture in Britain, C. 18901940

Informationen zum Autor Tania Anne Woloshyn was a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Medical Humanities in the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick from 2012 to 2016 Klappentext There is an Open Access edition of this book with a CC-BY-NC-ND license. Soaking up the rays forges a new path for exploring Britain's fickle love of the light by investigating the beginnings of light therapy in the country from c. 1890-1940. Despite rapidly becoming a leading treatment for tuberculosis, rickets and other infections and skin diseases, light therapy was a contentious medical practice. Bodily exposure to light, whether for therapeutic or aesthetic ends, persists as a contested subject to this day: recommended to counter skin conditions as well as Seasonal Affective Disorder and depression; closely linked to notions of beauty, happiness and well-being, fuelling tourism abroad and the tanning industry at home; and yet with repeated health warnings that it is a dangerous carcinogen. By analysing archival photographs, illustrated medical texts, advertisements, lamps, and goggles and their visual representation of how light acted upon the body, Woloshyn assesses their complicated contribution to the founding of light therapy. Zusammenfassung There is an Open Access edition of this book with a CC-BY-NC-ND license. Soaking up the rays forges a new path for exploring Britain's fickle love of the light by investigating the beginnings of light therapy in the country from c. 1890-1940. Despite rapidly becoming a leading treatment for tuberculosis, rickets and other infections and skin diseas Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Consuming light2 Dosing sunburn3 Light registers4 Vanguard rays5 Photogenic suntans6 Dead pointsIndex

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• Authors: Tania Anne Cleaves, Tania Anne Cleaves (Nee Woloshyn), Tania Woloshyn, Tania Anne Woloshyn
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781784995126
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-512-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; European History, MEDICAL / Alternative & Complementary Medicine, 20th Century, ART / History / General, MEDICAL / History, ART / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, History of art / art & design styles, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Medicine, History of Art, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, complementary medicine, Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies