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Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine ; no. 10

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.

Skin > Diseases > History > 18th century > Case studies.

Skin > Diseases > History > 19th century > Case studies.

Skin > Diseases > History > 20th century > Case studies.

Skin > Diseases > Treatment > History > 18th century > Case studies.

Skin > Diseases > Treatment > History > 19th century > Case studies.

Skin > Diseases > Treatment > History > 20th century > Case studies.

Skin Diseases - history.

Skin Diseases - therapy.