A medical history of skin : scratching the surface / edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Kevin Siena.

London : Pickering & Chatto, 2013.

xiv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical notes (p. 221-267) and index.

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.