UID:
almahu_9947382252802882
Format:
1 online resource (277 pages) :
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illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9783034012768
Series Statement:
Interferenzen ; 22
Content:
In the interwar period, western health experts considered ultraviolet light a powerful means for stimulating the population. In Germany, the electrical industry started to sell sunlamps for daily use, while hygienists and the spokesmen of the health reform movement celebrated the health effects of “light showers” in the popular press. Based on a careful reading of a wide variety of scientific and popular texts, the book maps the functions of sunlight in western medicine and culture. It studies the history of light and heliotherapy in medicine and investigates the transition of medical practices towards a marketed consumer product. The book argues that the electrification of light therapy shaped a new rationale for the application of light on the human body in medicine and beyond at the start of the 20th century.
Note:
Ph.D. Universität Zürich 2014
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Elektrosonnen --Sonne und apparate: die mobilisierung einer naturkraft (1890–1910) --Apparate und körper: die erfindung des lichtduschens (1900–1930) --Körper und strahlen: die verwissenschaftlichung der ultraviolettbehandlung (1900–1960) --Strahlen und gesellschaft: lichttechnik für moderne menschen (1920–1975) --Bestrahlungsräume.
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German
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3034012764
Language:
German
