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Lichtduschen : geschichte einer gesundheitstechnik, 1890–1975 / Niklaus Ingold.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Ingold, Niklaus, author.
- Series:
- Interferenzen ; 22.
- Interferenzen ; 22
- Language:
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Ultraviolet radiation--Therapeutic use.
- Ultraviolet radiation.
- Electrotherapeutics.
- Phototherapy.
- Ultraviolet radiation--Physiological effect.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Zürich Chronos Verlag 2015
- Zürich, Switzerland : Chronos Verlag, 2015
- Language Note:
- German
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In the interwar period, western health experts considered ultraviolet light a powerful means for stimulating the population. In Germany, the electrical industry started to sell sunlamps for daily use, while hygienists and the spokesmen of the health reform movement celebrated the health effects of “light showers” in the popular press. Based on a careful reading of a wide variety of scientific and popular texts, the book maps the functions of sunlight in western medicine and culture. It studies the history of light and heliotherapy in medicine and investigates the transition of medical practices towards a marketed consumer product. The book argues that the electrification of light therapy shaped a new rationale for the application of light on the human body in medicine and beyond at the start of the 20th century.
- Contents:
- Elektrosonnen
- Sonne und apparate: die mobilisierung einer naturkraft (1890–1910)
- Apparate und körper: die erfindung des lichtduschens (1900–1930)
- Körper und strahlen: die verwissenschaftlichung der ultraviolettbehandlung (1900–1960)
- Strahlen und gesellschaft: lichttechnik für moderne menschen (1920–1975)
- Bestrahlungsräume.
- Notes:
- Ph.D. Universität Zürich 2014
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on e-publication, viewed on October 16, 2018.
- ISBN:
- 9783034012768
- OCLC:
- 1030821246
- Publisher Number:
- 10.26530/OAPEN_625137
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