A Medical History of Skin - Scratching the Surface (Hardcover)

Diseases affecting the skin have tended to provoke a response of particular horror in society. With obvious and sometimes repellant outward signs of malady, they were often perceived to be highly contagious, as well as synonymous with immorality. Such connotations may have stemmed from the tell-tale buboes of syphilis, but the social stigma of disfigurement is something that still exists today. This collection of essays uses case studies to chart the medical history of skin from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

General

Imprint:	Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
Release date:	April 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Kevin Patrick Siena
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	294
ISBN-13:	978-1-84893-413-9
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Dermatology
LSN:	1-84893-413-0
Barcode:	9781848934139

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