RT Book, Section
A1 Dillard, Angela D.
A1 Quarles, Frederick N.
A2 Kelly, A. Paul
A2 Taylor, Susan C.
A2 Lim, Henry W.
A2 Serrano, Ana Maria Anido
SR Print(0)
ID 1161551538
T1 African American Pioneers in Dermatology
T2 Taylor and Kelly's Dermatology for Skin of Color, 2e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071805520
LK dermatology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1161551538
RD 2024/04/19
AB In  his  famous  “I  Have  a  Dream”  speech  in  1963,  the  Reverend  Martin  Luther  King,  Jr.,  spoke  with  hope  of  the  day  when  people  would  be  judged  according  to  the  content  of  their  character  rather  than  the  color  of  their  skin.  In  attacking  the  causes  and  consequences  of  discrimination,  inequality,  and  injustice,  it  was  certainly  not  King’s  intent  to  play  down  the  importance  of  the  objective  study  of  skin  of  color  itself.  While  many  theorists  locate  the  roots  of  racial  prejudice  in  the  color  of  skin,  the  darker  skin  of  color  has  also  inspired  numerous  men  and  women  to  dedicate  their  lives  to  the  study,  treatment,  and  care  of  dermatologic  conditions  and  diseases.  Race  may  be  only  skin  deep—and  not,  that  is  to  say,  a  matter  of  genetics  and  blood—but  this  skin  holds  many  characteristics,  oddities,  benefits,  and  mysteries  peculiar  unto  itself.