Skin Disease and the History of Dermatology

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.

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.

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