Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures and Tables
- Scratching the Surface: An Introduction
- Part I The Emerging Skin Field
- Part II Skin, Stigma and Identity
- 5 The Moral Biology of ‘the Itch’ in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 6 Syphilis, Backwardness and Indigenous Skin Lesions through French Physicians' Eyes in the Colonial Maghreb, 1830–1930
- 7 Discovering the ‘Leper’: Shifting Attitudes towards Leprosy in Twentieth-Century Uganda
- 8 Sex and Skin Cancer: Kaposi's Sarcoma Becomes the ‘Stigmata of AIDS’, 1979–83
- Part III Skin, Disease and Visual Culture
- Afterword: Reading the Skin, Discerning the Landscape: A Geo-historical Perspective of our Human Surface
- Notes
- Index
8 - Sex and Skin Cancer: Kaposi's Sarcoma Becomes the ‘Stigmata of AIDS’, 1979–83
from Part II - Skin, Stigma and Identity
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures and Tables
- Scratching the Surface: An Introduction
- Part I The Emerging Skin Field
- Part II Skin, Stigma and Identity
- 5 The Moral Biology of ‘the Itch’ in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 6 Syphilis, Backwardness and Indigenous Skin Lesions through French Physicians' Eyes in the Colonial Maghreb, 1830–1930
- 7 Discovering the ‘Leper’: Shifting Attitudes towards Leprosy in Twentieth-Century Uganda
- 8 Sex and Skin Cancer: Kaposi's Sarcoma Becomes the ‘Stigmata of AIDS’, 1979–83
- Part III Skin, Disease and Visual Culture
- Afterword: Reading the Skin, Discerning the Landscape: A Geo-historical Perspective of our Human Surface
- Notes
- Index
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- A Medical History of SkinScratching the Surface, pp. 113 - 128Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014