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Woloshyn, Tania (2013) Le pays du soleil : the art of heliotherapy on the Cote d'Azur. Social History of Medicine, 26 (1). pp. 74-93. doi:10.1093/shm/hks052 ISSN 0951-631X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hks052
Abstract
This interdisciplinary article explores the early history of heliotherapy (natural sunlight therapy) on the Côte d'Azur through its visual culture. It concentrates on images, and the texts within which they appear, of children undergoing heliotherapy dating to the First World War, as a way into examining the significance of the cure during a period of perceived national degeneration. By doing so, the article critically contextualises held notions of the region's reputation for hedonism, glamour and novelty. It argues that certain themes and strategies employed by practitioners to promote heliotherapy on the Côte d'Azur explain how the cure became naturalised and embedded into the region's raison d'être as a sunny playground. Through the visual material, the article concentrates on three themes: its primitive roots in cults and sun-worship; its ability to produce euphoria in the patient; and its use as a regenerative practice for French citizens, especially pre-tubercular or tubercular children.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Social History of Medicine | ||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||
ISSN: | 0951-631X | ||||
Official Date: | February 2013 | ||||
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Volume: | 26 | ||||
Number: | 1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 74-93 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1093/shm/hks052 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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