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  1. Soaking up the rays: Light therapy and visual culture in Britain, c. 1890–1940
    Author: Anne Woloshyn, Tania
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  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... more

     

    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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  2. Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World
    Contributor: Puw Davies, Mererid (Publisher); Shamdasani, Sonu (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World is the first volume dedicated to exploring the interface of medicine, the human and the humane in the German-speaking lands. The volume tracks the designation and making through medicine... more

     

    Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World is the first volume dedicated to exploring the interface of medicine, the human and the humane in the German-speaking lands.

     

    The volume tracks the designation and making through medicine of the human and inhuman, and the humane and inhumane, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Eight individual chapters undertake explorations into ways in which theories and practices of medicine in the German-speaking world have come to define the human, and highlight how such theories and practices have consolidated, or undermined, notions of humane behaviour. Cultural analysis is central to this investigation, foregrounding the reflection, refraction and indeed creation of these theories and practices in literature, life-writing and other discourses and media.

     

    Contributors bring to bear perspectives from literary studies, film studies, critical theory, cultural studies, history, and the history of medicine and psychiatry. Thus, this collection is historical in the most expansive sense, for it debates not only what historical accounts bring to our understanding of this topic. It encompasses too investigation of life-writing, documentary, and theory and literary works to bring to light elusive, paradoxical, underexplored – yet vital – issues in history and culture.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Puw Davies, Mererid (Publisher); Shamdasani, Sonu (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Literature & literary studies
    Other subjects: medical humanities; Germany; history; literature; medicine
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (240 p.)
  3. The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine : Classical to Contemporary
    Contributor: Fuller, David (Publisher); Saunders, Corinne (Publisher); Macnaughton, Jane (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Springer Nature

    This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between... more

     

    This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victorian, modern and contemporary periods, drawing on medical writings, philosophy, theology and the visual arts as well as on literary, historical and cultural studies. The collection illustrates the complex significance and symbolic power of breath and breathlessness across time: breath is written deeply into ideas of nature, spirituality, emotion, creativity and being, and is inextricable from notions of consciousness, spirit, inspiration, voice, feeling, freedom and movement. The volume also demonstrates the long-standing connections between breath and place, politics and aesthetics, illuminating both contrasts and continuities.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Fuller, David (Publisher); Saunders, Corinne (Publisher); Macnaughton, Jane (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 978-3-030-74443-4; 9783030744434
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    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; History of science; Philosophy
    Other subjects: health humanities; medical humanities; breath in literature; COPD; breathlessness; literature and science; Open Access
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (555 p.)