Name: A Medical History of Skin:Scratching the Surface
ISBN: 9781315654591

Book

ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |16 pages

Scratching the Surface: An Introduction – Kevin Siena and

chapter 1|14 pages

Drain, Blister, Bleed: Surgeons Open and Close the Skin in Georgian London – Lynda Payne

chapter 2|12 pages

Abominable Ulcers, Open Pores and a New Tissue: Transforming the Skin in the Norwegian Countryside, 1750–1850 – Anne Kveim Lie

chapter 3|14 pages

Protecting the Skin of the British Empire: St Paul’s Bay Disease in Quebec – James Moran

chapter 4|14 pages

‘Italic Scurvy’, ‘Pellarina’, ‘Pellagra’: Medical Reactions to a New Disease in Italy, 1770–1815 – David Gentilcore

chapter 5|14 pages

The Moral Biology of 'the Itch' in Eighteenth-Century Britain

chapter 6|14 pages

Syphilis, Backwardness and Indigenous Skin Lesions through French Physicians’ Eyes in the Colonial Maghreb, 1830–1930

chapter 7|14 pages

Discovering the ‘Leper’: Shi ing Attitudes towards Leprosy in

chapter 8|16 pages

Sex and Skin Cancer: Kaposi’s Sarcoma Becomes the ‘Stigmata of AIDS’, 1979–83 – Richard A. McKay

chapter 9|18 pages

‘An Alteration in the Human Countenance’: Inoculation, Vaccination and the Face of Smallpox in the Age of Jenner

chapter 10|18 pages

Portraying Skin Disease: Robert Carswell’s Dermatological Watercolours – Mechthild Fend

chapter 11|16 pages

Atavistic Marks and Risky Practices: The Tattoo in Medico-Legal Debate, 1850-1950

chapter 12|14 pages

‘Kissed by the Sun’: Tanning the Skin of the Sick with Light erapeutics, c. 1890–1930 – Tania Woloshyn

chapter 13|14 pages

'Classic, Characteristic or Typical': The Skin and the Visual Properties of External Anthrax Lesions

A Medical History of Skin