Through the healing glass : shaping the modern body through glass architecture, 1925-35 / John Stanislav Sadar.

  • Sadar, John Stanislav
Date:
2016
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Physical description

xiii, 233 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

Contents

The Healthful Ambience of Vitaglass : Light, Glass and the Curative Environment -- Environments. The Scientific Evaluation of Light, from Newton to Ritter to Maxwell -- Revolutions in Glass -- Specific Definitions and Visualisations of Disease -- Towards a Curative Environment -- Bodies. Needy Bodies : Fleetwood Pritchard and the "Vita" Glass Marketing Board -- Magical Bodies : The Promise of Weather Control, Labour-savings, Transparency -- Normal Bodies : Scientific Management, Ideal Childhood, and Biological Processes -- Short-Lived Bodies : The Lifespan of the Therapeutic Environments of the 1920s and 1930s -- Shaping Bodies : Marketing Material Performance.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    ZHHG.AA9
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ISBN

  • 9781138837805
  • 1138837806