Soaking Up the Rays: Light Therapy and Visual Culture in Britain, c. 18901940
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Soaking Up the Rays: Light Therapy and Visual Culture in Britain, c. 18901940
By (Author) Tania Anne Woloshyn
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
3rd August 2017
United Kingdom
Classifications
Physical Properties
Hardback
288
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Description
There is an Open Access edition of this book with a CC-BY-NC-ND license. 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 diseas
Reviews
Soaking up the Rays displays a reflective methodology and meticulously detailed approach to analysing visual cultures. Woloshyns transferable toolkit can be both studied and applied by researchers to evaluate their own contentious histories and complex layers of visual representation.
Fabiola Creed, University of Warwick, Social History of Medicine, Volume 32, Issue 2, May 2019
Author Bio
Tania Anne Woloshyn was a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Medical Humanities in the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick from 2012 to 2016
