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Introduction
Chapter 1
Your Body and Mind in the Sun
Chapter 2
The Decline of the Sun in Recent Times
Chapter 3
How Sunlight Can Prevent Serious Health Problems
Chapter 4
Sunlight: A Medicine for Diseases of the Past, Present and Future
Chapter 5
How to Sunbathe Safely, All Year Round
Chapter 6
The Merits of Getting Sunlight into Buildings
Chapter 7
Sunlight and Health in the 21st Century
Reviews
Press Reviews
RICHARD HOBDAY
Press Reviews
BOOK REVIEW
Luminews - Autumn 1999Dr Richard Hobday has written a most interesting and readable book - well illustrated - about sunlight and health in the 2lst Century. He has had many years experience of solar design in buildings (Sanatoria especially) and is a leading authority on the history of sunlight therapy. At a time when there has been much anxiety about sunlight and its possible health hazards.
Dr Hobday points out the importance of sunlight for preventing and healing many common and often fatal diseases underlining the fact that we are in danger of not having enough sunlight in a culture in which we can be stressed by too much artificial light. Fear and ignorance have bred a hesitation and anxiety about sunlight that Dr Hobday dispels. It is a well researched account but by no means heavy reading. Quite the opposite. The book is a pleasure to read and I commend it warmly to our readers. I particularly enjoyed the literary extracts from the Egyptian and Classical world and the photographs from the Florence Nightingale Museum in London and the Medical History Museum in Copenhagen showing Dr Niels Finsen and Light Therapy at his clinic at the beginning of the Century (1903 onwards). We are encouraged to welcome the sunlight back into our lives - who would not agree?
Review by Primrose Cooper