Soaking up the rays: Light therapy and visual culture in Britain, c. 1890–1940

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...

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1. Verfasser:	Anne Woloshyn, Tania
Format:	Online
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Manchester University Press 2021
Schlagworte:	sunlight light therapy medical humanities ultraviolet radiation phototherapy heliotherapy thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MX Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies
Online-Zugang:	633234
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