diseases of darkness and the quest for natural light Freund, Daniel creator text bibliography xxu Chicago (Illinois, Estados Unidos) Londres (Inglaterra) University of Chicago Press 2012 monographic eng viii, 216 páginas ilustraciones, fotografías In 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. specialized Daniel Freund Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices Texto en inglés Sol Aspectos ambientales Ecología urbana (sociología) Estados Unidos Climatoterapia Naturaleza Aspectos ambientales 9780226262833 9781280126086 Co-BoUCM 120326 20180601164028.0 ocn781634234 spa