TY  - BOOK
AU  - Freund,Daniel
TI  - American sunshine: diseases of darkness and the quest for natural light
SN  - 9780226262833
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Chicago (Illinois, Estados Unidos), Londres (Inglaterra)
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Sol
KW  - Aspectos ambientales
KW  - Ecología urbana (sociología)
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Climatoterapia
KW  - Naturaleza
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices
N2  - 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
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