LEADER 02816nam 2200421 450 001 9910219861403321 005 20230621141338.0 035 $a(CKB)3800000000216166 035 $a(EXLCZ)993800000000216166 100 $a20171009d2017 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSoaking up the rays $elight therapy and visual culture in Britain, c. 1890?1940 /$fTania Anne Woloshyn 210 1$aManchester, England :$cManchester University Press,$d2017 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (288 pages) $cillustrations, plates (some color); digital file(s) 311 08$aPrint version: 9781784995126 1784995126 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aList of illustrations --Acknowledgements --1. Consuming light --2. Dosing sunburn --3. Light registers --4. Vanguard rays --5. Photogenic suntans --6. Dead points --Select bibliography --Index. 330 3 $aSoaking 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 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. 606 $aPhototherapy$xHistory 606 $aPhototherapy$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aVisual communication$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aSuntan 615 0$aPhototherapy$xHistory. 615 0$aPhototherapy$xHistory. 615 0$aVisual communication$xHistory. 615 0$aSuntan. 676 $a615.831 700 $aWoloshyn$b Tania$0993507 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910219861403321 996 $aSoaking up the rays$92274900 997 $aUNINA