1st Edition
Skin Disease and the History of Dermatology Order out of Chaos
- 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
Biography
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.
It was the winner of the John T Crissey Prize 2023.
'This is very much a text driven book with an academic bend but it is very readable and fascinating and there is a good collection of endnotes. This is a considerable and scholarly work on the topic as stated in the title.'
- Dr. Harry Brown, General Practitioner, Leeds, UK
"...a milestone in the historiography of dermatology precisely thanks to its comprehensiveness, its specificity, and its systematicity."
- Doody's Review Service
"This book is a must-read for dermatologists and anyone interested in the history of medicine."
- JEADV
"This book offers the advantage and the possible countereffects of such a vast collection of material: whereas it covers almost all aspects of the topic, it also conveys the approximations that are necessary to complete the picture. Nevertheless, it will be a milestone in the historiography of dermatology precisely thanks to its comprehensiveness, its specificity, and its systematicity." - Alain Touwaide, Ronin Institute
