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

Soaking up the rays : : light therapy and visual culture in Britain, c. 1890–1940 / / Tania Anne Woloshyn.

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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Woloshyn, Tania,
Place / Publishing House:Manchester, England : : Manchester University Press,, 2017
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages) :; illustrations, plates (some color); digital file(s).
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Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Consuming light
  • 2. Dosing sunburn
  • 3. Light registers
  • 4. Vanguard rays
  • 5. Photogenic suntans
  • 6. Dead points
  • Select bibliography
  • Index.

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