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UNINA9910219861403321 |
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Woloshyn Tania |
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Soaking up the rays : light therapy and visual culture in Britain, c. 1890–1940 / / Tania Anne Woloshyn |
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Manchester, England : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 |
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1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations, plates (some color); digital file(s) |
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Phototherapy - History |
Phototherapy - Great Britain - History |
Visual communication - Great Britain - History |
Suntan |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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List of illustrations --Acknowledgements --1. Consuming light --2. Dosing sunburn --3. Light registers --4. Vanguard rays --5. Photogenic suntans --6. Dead points --Select bibliography --Index. |
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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 diseases, light therapy was a contentious medical practice. Bodily exposure to light, whether for therapeutic or aesthetic ends, persists as a contested subject to this day: recommended to counter psoriasis and other skin conditions as well as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and depression; closely linked to notions of beauty, happiness and well-being, fuelling tourism to sunny locales abroad and the tanning industry at home; and yet with repeated health warnings that it is a dangerous carcinogen. By analysing archival photographs, illustrated medical texts, advertisements, lamps, and goggles and their visual representation of how light acted upon the body, Woloshyn assesses their complicated contribution to the founding of light therapy. Soaking |
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up the rays will appeal to those intrigued by medicine’s visual culture, especially academics and students of the histories of art and visual culture, material cultures, medicine, science and technology, and popular culture. |
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UNINA9910790516603321 |
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Bellanta Melissa |
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Larrikins [[electronic resource] ] : a history / / Melissa Bellanta |
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St. Lucia, Queensland ; ; Chicago, : University of Queensland Press, 2012 |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Subculture - Australia - History |
Youth - Australia - History |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Author biography; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Figure 1.; Figure 2.; Figure 3.; Introduction: The true blue Aussie larrikin; Chapter One: The leary bloke; Chapter Two: The brazen girl; Chapter Three: The pull of the push; Chapter Four: The Mount Rennie outrage; Chapter Five: Larrikin style; Chapter Six: All the world's a football field; Chapter Seven: The demise of the flash larrikin; Afterword: Larrikinism since 1930; Acknowledgments; Endnotes; Index |
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Australia has often been said to possess a "larrikin streak," from the <I>Stiffy and Mo</I> cartoons and the true-blue Crocodile Hunter to the characters in the silent film <I>The Sentimental Bloke</I>. When it first emerged around 1870, <I>larrikin</I> was a term of abuse, used to describe teenage, working-class hell-raisers who populated dance halls and cheap theaters, and this account journeys through the street-based youth subculture known as larrikinism between 1870 and 1920, swerving through the streets of Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney. Offering a glimpse into the lives of Australia's |
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UNIORUON00037920 |
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Autore |
WOLFART, Reinhard |
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Geologie von Syrien und dem Lebanon / von Reinhard Wolfart |
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Berlin, : Gebruder Borntraeger, 1967 |
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XII, 326 p. : ill. ; 21 cm + 3 carte f.t. |
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GEOLOGIA - SIRIA |
GEOLOGIA - LIBANO |
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