Diseases affecting the skin have tended to provoke a response of particular horror in society. This collection of essays uses case studies to chart the medical history of skin from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
'This collection offers a thoughtful and carefully assembled multi-faceted series of studies on the representation of skin ... [an] excellent and very useful collection.' Social History of Medicine
Innehållsförteckning
List of Contributors, List of Figures and Tables, Scratching the Surface: An Introduction – Kevin Siena and Jonathan Reinarz, Part I: The Emerging Skin Field, Part II: Skin, Stigma and Identity, Part III: Skin, Disease and Visual Culture, Afterword: Reading the Skin, Discerning the Landscape: A Geo-historical, Perspective of our Human Surface – Philip K. Wilson, Notes, Index
