The Rise and Fall of the Sunbed in Britain
Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear
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2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-45033-2 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
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This open access book explores the changing representation of sunbed providers and consumers in Britain by analysing the role of the media, medical experts, and socio-political transformations during the 1970s-90s.
Seeking to contextualise our cultural conceptualisation of sunbeds, this volume takes readers through the origins of tanning culture, examining the impact of beauty entrepreneurs and the integration of sunbed facilities into health and fitness venues during the tanning boom of the 1970s. Fabiola Creed utilises a variety of primary source material, including print media, film, medical journals, and trade directories and catalogues, to demonstrate the sunbed’s initial association with wellness and luxury lifestyles, and entrance into mainstream use towards the late 1980s.
Highlighting how the sunbed is an important case study for the increase in the use of broadcast media as a communicator of public health messages, Creed analyses how commentary on sunbeds spread quickly from local to national media, with medical experts replacing industry representatives as leaders of the conversations around sunbed safety. This shift in media conversations triggered an increase in research and Health Education Authority campaigning, and subsequent characterisation of the industry as medically and financially exploitative.
Ultimately, The Rise and Fall of the Sunbed demonstrates how popular culture reciprocally influenced and shaped public health research and scientific discussions during the period, and how this influenced, and was influenced by, the socio-cultural climate of Thatcher-era Britain.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Seeking to contextualise our cultural conceptualisation of sunbeds, this volume takes readers through the origins of tanning culture, examining the impact of beauty entrepreneurs and the integration of sunbed facilities into health and fitness venues during the tanning boom of the 1970s. Fabiola Creed utilises a variety of primary source material, including print media, film, medical journals, and trade directories and catalogues, to demonstrate the sunbed’s initial association with wellness and luxury lifestyles, and entrance into mainstream use towards the late 1980s.
Highlighting how the sunbed is an important case study for the increase in the use of broadcast media as a communicator of public health messages, Creed analyses how commentary on sunbeds spread quickly from local to national media, with medical experts replacing industry representatives as leaders of the conversations around sunbed safety. This shift in media conversations triggered an increase in research and Health Education Authority campaigning, and subsequent characterisation of the industry as medically and financially exploitative.
Ultimately, The Rise and Fall of the Sunbed demonstrates how popular culture reciprocally influenced and shaped public health research and scientific discussions during the period, and how this influenced, and was influenced by, the socio-cultural climate of Thatcher-era Britain.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Fabiola Creed is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, UK.
Introduction
Part I
1. A Site for Self-Improvement: Jean Graham’s Beauty, Health and Sunbed Enterprise in Liverpool
2. Britain’s ‘Boom’ of the Health, Fitness and Sunbed Industry (1980-1982)
3. New Working-Class Consumers and the Bust of the Domestic Sunbed Industry (1983-1987)
Part II
4. Medical Research and Stigma after the Sunbed Boom Years (1988-1990)
5. Spreading ‘Tanorexic’ Tanning Culture through Britain’s Print Press (1991-1994)
6. The ‘War’ against Skin Cancer, Britain’s Sunbed Empire and ‘Tanorexics’ (1995-7)
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.2.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 21 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-45033-2 / 1350450332 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-45033-2 / 9781350450332 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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