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Titre(s) : A medical history of skin [Texte imprimé] : scratching the surface / edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Kevin Siena
Publication : London : Pickering & Chatto, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-279 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Studies for the Society for the social history of medicine ; no. 10
Lien à la collection : Studies for the Society for the social history of medicine
Comprend : List of contributors ; List of figures and tables ; 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 Kveim 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', 1979-83 / 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 ; Notes ; Index.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 221-267
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Reinarz, Jonathan. Éditeur scientifique
Siena, Kevin Patrick (1969-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Dermatoses -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
616.500 9 (23e éd.) = Maladies du tégument (médecine) - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781848934139. - ISBN 1848934130 (rel.). - ISBN 9781781440407. - ISBN 1781440409
(ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43555943r
Notice n° :
FRBNF43555943
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