Soaking up the rays: light therapy and visual culture in britain, c. 1890–1940
Auteur :
Cleaves (nee Woloshyn), Tania Anne
Éditeur :
Manchester University Press
ISBN :
9781784995126
Date de publication :
3 août 2017
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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