Dress and Morality or Skin Aging

Dress and Morality

Author: Aileen Ribeiro

Moralists have raged throughout history against various fashions for being too short, too long, too tight, too loose or too costly. Highlighting the times when choice of dress was a moral minefield, this enlightening and entertaining book looks at fashion extremes over the centuries, from the sexual display of the codpiece through to corsets, crinolines and décolletage. Providing a sharp and humorous look at the outright risqué as well as the grotesquely exaggerated and even the repulsive, Ribeiro shows how dress has functioned variously as a vehicle of righteousness or turpitude and as an expression of sexuality, class or social status. In 747 St Boniface deemed wide stripes and scarlet borders to incite lust and ruination of the soul. Well over a millennium later immodest dress ranked high in Jesuit Father Bernard Vaughan’s book on the sins of society. Medical practitioners once labelled the v-necked top, now a standard style, ‘the pneumonia neckline’. Was it the force of society or sheer vanity of fashion that drove women to wear sleeves the size of balloons? Are sexual boundaries between dress worn by men and women diminishing? What morals still bind us to our Judeo-Christian heritage and lead us to express ourselves through appearances'Lavishly illustrated and packed with countless thought-provoking quotes, Dress and Morality is an in-depth exploration of the comical vanities and social etiquettes associated with dress in the past. At last here is the much-anticipated updated edition of this classic book.

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Skin Aging

Author: Barbara A Gilchrest

The topic of skin aging is of growing importance to all working in the field of dermatology, aesthetic medicine and cosmetic medicine. Two internationally well-known and leading experts in the field present a comprehensive state-of-the-art review on all aspects of skin aging.

With its clear, concise and reader-friendly format this book has all the potential to become the Bible of skin aging. Every specialist interested in dermatology, aesthetic medicine, cosmetic science, cutaneous biology and aging research will find indispensable information of great value for his or her daily work.

Table of Contents:

1	Recent demographic changes and consequences for dermatology	1
2	Clinical and histological features of intrinsic versus extrinsic skin aging	9
3	Ethnic differences in skin aging	23
4	Photoaging of skin	33
5	Premature skin aging by infrared radiation, tobacco smoke and ozone	45
6	The role of hormones in intrinsic aging	55
7	Permeability and antioxidant barriers in aged epidermis	65
8	Clarifying the vitamin D controversy : the health benefits of supplementation by diet versus sunshine	81
9	Modern photoprotection of human skin	103
10	Vitamins and polyphenols in systemic photoprotection	113
11	Hormone replacement therapy and skin aging	123
12	Skin aging in three dimensions	133
13	Retinoid therapy for photoaging	143
14	Topical photodynamic therapy	157
15	Botulinum toxin, fillers, peels : the scientific view	167
16	Lasers	185