01626cam a2200277Ka 4500001001300000005001700013008004100030020001800071020001800089020001800107020001500125035007500140040004400215041000800259100001900267245009100286260009600377300005400473504005300527520060500580546002201185650003101207650005301238650001901291650003801310ocn78163423420180601164028.0120326s2012    xxuao  frb    001 0 eng d  a9780226262833  a9781280126086  z9780226262819  z0226262812  a(OCoLC)781634234z(OCoLC)786276821z(OCoLC)787848555z(OCoLC)817068240  aCo-BoUCMbspacSaul NiñodSaul Niño0 aeng1 aFreund, Daniel10aAmerican sunshinebdiseases of darkness and the quest for natural lightcDaniel Freund  aChicago (Illinois, Estados Unidos)aLondres (Inglaterra)bUniversity of Chicago Pressc2012  aviii, 216 páginasbilustraciones, fotografías  aIncluye referencias bibliográficas e índices  aIn the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these new conditions with claims about a rising tide of the "diseases of darkness," especially rickets and tuberculosis. In American Sunshine, Daniel Freund tracks the obsession with sunlight from those bleak days into the twentieth century. Before long, social reformers, medical professionals, scientists, and a growing nudist movement proffered remedi.  aTexto en inglés 7aSol xAspectos ambientales 0aEcología urbana (sociología)zEstados Unidos 7aClimatoterapia 7aNaturaleza xAspectos ambientales