Full Description
This text is both a history of skin disease and a history of dermatology, telling the human historical experience of skin disease and how we have come to know what we know about the skin and its myriad diseases over the course of four millennia, looking at key figures in life and literature and key events such as the Black Death and the eradication of smallpox.
*Examines how the history of skin disease fits into the larger picture of the history of each age
*Provides dermatological insight into major events and personalities from history
*Offers a unique perspective on the history of each age
Contents
Introduction
Part I Chaos
1. Ancient Mesopotamia
2. Ancient Egypt
3. Classical Greece
4. The Roman Empire
Interlude 1 Leprosy (Hansen's Disease)
5. The Early Middle Ages
6. The Islamic Golden Age
7. The Medieval West
8. The Renaissance
Interlude 2 The Black Death and Other Pandemics
Part II Order
9. The Scientific Revolution
10. The Enlightenment
Interlude 3 Syphilis
11. The Nineteenth Century: An Introduction
12. The British School
13. The French School
Interlude 4 Smallpox
14. The Vienna School and the German Schools
15. American Dermatology in the Nineteenth Century
16. The Twentieth Century and Beyond
Conclusion
