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  1. Soaking up the rays: Light therapy and visual culture in Britain, c. 1890–1940
    Autor*in: Anne Woloshyn, Tania
    Erschienen: 2017
    Verlag:  Manchester University Press

    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... mehr

     

    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 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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    Quelle: OAPEN
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781526115980
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    Schlagworte: History of art / art & design styles; British & Irish history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; History of medicine; Complementary medicine
    Weitere Schlagworte: sunlight; light therapy; medical humanities; ultraviolet radiation; phototherapy; heliotherapy
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (288 p.)
  2. Sunlight and protection against influenza
    Autor*in: Slusky, David; Zeckhauser, Richard
    Erschienen: July 2020
    Verlag:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    Recent medical literature suggests that vitamin D supplementation protects against acute respiratory tract infection. Humans exposed to sunlight produce vitamin D directly. This paper investigates how differences in sunlight, as measured over several... mehr

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    Recent medical literature suggests that vitamin D supplementation protects against acute respiratory tract infection. Humans exposed to sunlight produce vitamin D directly. This paper investigates how differences in sunlight, as measured over several years across states and during the same calendar week, affect influenza incidence. We find that sunlight strongly protects against getting influenza. This relationship is driven almost entirely by the severe H1N1 epidemic in fall 2009. A 10% increase in relative sunlight decreases the influenza index in September or October by 1.1 points on a 10-point scale. A second, complementary study employs a separate data set to study flu incidence in counties in New York State. The results are strongly in accord.

     
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/223911
    Schriftenreihe: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 13469
    Schlagworte: Seasonal Influenza; sunlight; vitamin d; natural experiment; H1N1
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 72 Seiten), Illustrationen