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A Medical History of Skin: Scratching the Surface
Author(s): Kevin Patrick Siena (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 April 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 294 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848934130
- ISBN-13: 9781848934139
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘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
About the Author
Kevin Patrick Siena
