CONTENTS

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xii

List of Figures and Tables

pp xiii-xiv

Scratching the Surface: An Introduction

pp 1-16

Part I - The Emerging Skin Field

1 - Drain, Blister, Bleed: Surgeons Open and Close the Skin in Georgian London

pp 17-30

2 - Abominable Ulcers, Open Pores and a New Tissue: Transforming the Skin in the Norwegian Countryside, 1750–1850

pp 31-42

3 - Protecting the Skin of the British Empire: St Paul's Bay Disease in Quebec

pp 43-56

4 - ‘Italic Scurvy’, ‘Pellarina’, ‘Pellagra’: Medical Reactions to a New Disease in Italy, 1770–1815

pp 57-70

Part II - Skin, Stigma and Identity

5 - The Moral Biology of ‘the Itch’ in Eighteenth-Century Britain

pp 71-84

6 - Syphilis, Backwardness and Indigenous Skin Lesions through French Physicians' Eyes in the Colonial Maghreb, 1830–1930

pp 85-98

7 - Discovering the ‘Leper’: Shifting Attitudes towards Leprosy in Twentieth-Century Uganda

pp 99-112

8 - Sex and Skin Cancer: Kaposi's Sarcoma Becomes the ‘Stigmata of AIDS’, 1979–83

pp 113-128

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

pp 129-146

10 - Portraying Skin Disease: Robert Carswell's Dermatological Watercolours

pp 147-164

11 - Atavistic Marks and Risky Practices: The Tattoo in Medico-Legal Debate, 1850–1950

pp 165-180

12 - ‘Kissed by the Sun’: Tanning the Skin of the Sick with Light Therapeutics, c. 1890–1930

pp 181-194

13 - ‘Classic, Characteristic or Typical’: The Skin and the Visual Properties of External Anthrax Lesions

pp 195-208

Afterword: Reading the Skin, Discerning the Landscape: A Geo-historical Perspective of our Human Surface

pp 209-220

Notes

pp 221-268

Index

pp 269-279