American sunshine : diseases of darkness and the quest for natural light / Daniel Freund.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.

viii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Toward a history of natural light -- The darkening city, 1850-1920 -- The dawn of scientific sunlight -- Sun cures -- Popular enthusiasms: eugenists, nudists, builders, modern mothers, and the sun cult -- Climate tourism and its alternative -- Epilogue: sunlight into the twenty-first century.