Scott Jackson (Principla Engineer, Burnham Systems, CA)

Skin Disease and the History of Dermatology

Order out of Chaos

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text is a history of skin disease and a history of dermatology, telling the human historical experience of skin disease and how we have come to learn about the skin and its myriad diseases over four millennia, looking at events such as the Black Death and the eradication of smallpox.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 182mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9781032226606
• ISBN-10: 1032226609
• Artikelnr.: 64105420

Autorenporträt

Scott M. Jackson, MD, is a dermatologist in private practice in Bentonville, Arkansas, USA, having previously served as a Clinical Assistant Professor for the Department of Dermatology at the LSUHSC School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisana, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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