Overview

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.

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Author:   Kevin Patrick Siena ,  Jonathan Reinarz
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Volume:   10
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.566kg
ISBN:  

9781848934139

ISBN 10:   1848934130
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   01 April 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Scratching The Surface: an Introduction - Kevin Siena and Jonathan Reinarz Part I: The Emerging Skin Field 1 Drain, Blister, Bleed: Surgeons Open and Close the Skin in Georgian London - Lynda Payne 2 Abominable Ulcers, Open Pores and a New Tissue: Transforming the Skin in the Norwegian Countryside 1750-1850 - Anne Kviem Lie 3 Protecting the Skin of the British Empire: St Paul's Bay Disease in Quebec - James Moran 4 'Italic Scurvy', 'Pellarina', 'Pellagra': Medical Reactions to a New Disease in Italy, 1770-1815 - David Gentilcore Part II: Skin, Stigma and Identity 5 The Moral Biology of 'the itch' in Eighteenth-Century Britain - Kevin Siena 6 Syphilis, Backwardness and Indigenous Skin Lesions through French Physicians' Eyes in the Colonial Maghreb, 1830-1930 - Adrien Minard 7 Discovering the 'Leper': Shifting Attitudes towards Leprosy in Twentieth-Century Uganda - Kathleen Vongsathorn 8 Sex and Skin Cancer: Kaposi's Sarcoma Becomes the 'Stigmata of AIDS', 1979-1983 - Richard A McKay Part III: Skin, Disease and Visual Culture 9 'An Alteration in the Human Countenance': Inoculation, Vaccination and the Face of Smallpox in the Age of Jenner - Matthew L Newsom Kerr 10 Portraying Skin Disease: Robert Carswell's Dermatological Watercolours - Mechthild Fend 11 Atavistic Marks and Risky Practices: The Tattoo in Medico-Legal Debate, 1850-1950 - Gemma Angel 12 'Kissed by the Sun': Tanning the Skin of the Sick with Light Therapeutics, c.1890-1930 - Tania Woloshyn 13 'Classic, Characteristic or Typical': The Skin and the Visual Properties of External Anthrax Lesions - James F Stark Afterword: Reading the Skin, Discerning the Landscape: A Geo-historical Perspective of our Human Surface - Philip K Wilson

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'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

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