Main 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