The Resource Original skin : exploring the marvels of the human hide, Maryrose Cuskelly
Original skin : exploring the marvels of the human hide, Maryrose Cuskelly
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The item Original skin : exploring the marvels of the human hide, Maryrose Cuskelly represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Original skin : exploring the marvels of the human hide, Maryrose Cuskelly represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Original Skin is at times a scientific study, remarking on the biological magic behind the human body's largest organ. At others it becomes an anthropological survey, dissecting separate societies' attitudes towards bare bodies, and the motives behind cultural rituals such as tattoos
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (274 pages)
- Contents
-
- Empresses of the Japanese bath
- Skin: the body's envelope
- Touch me
- Melting pot: the colour of skin
- O, no! It is an ever-fix'd mark: scars, moles, and other blemishes
- Peculiar to humanity: blushing and tickling
- Unclean, unclean: skin and disease
- She's got perfect skin
- The lure of the tattoo
- Alison Whyte's boots: skinning and the human pelt
- Bound in human skin: anthropodermic bibliopegy
- You're nicked: the romance of fingerprints
- Peering into the abyss: burns injuries
- Leaves on the tree of life: the donor tissue bank of Victoria
- Second skins: semi-living sculpture
- The skin we're in
- Isbn
- 9781582438856
- Label
- Original skin : exploring the marvels of the human hide
- Title
- Original skin
- Title remainder
- exploring the marvels of the human hide
- Statement of responsibility
- Maryrose Cuskelly
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Original Skin is at times a scientific study, remarking on the biological magic behind the human body's largest organ. At others it becomes an anthropological survey, dissecting separate societies' attitudes towards bare bodies, and the motives behind cultural rituals such as tattoos
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cuskelly, Maryrose
- Dewey number
- 612.7/9
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- QM481
- LC item number
- .C87 2011eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Skin
- Dermis
- Human body
- SCIENCE
- MEDICAL
- Dermis
- Human body
- Skin
- Skin
- Human body
- Label
- Original skin : exploring the marvels of the human hide, Maryrose Cuskelly
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-271)
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Empresses of the Japanese bath -- Skin: the body's envelope -- Touch me -- Melting pot: the colour of skin -- O, no! It is an ever-fix'd mark: scars, moles, and other blemishes -- Peculiar to humanity: blushing and tickling -- Unclean, unclean: skin and disease -- She's got perfect skin -- The lure of the tattoo -- Alison Whyte's boots: skinning and the human pelt -- Bound in human skin: anthropodermic bibliopegy -- You're nicked: the romance of fingerprints -- Peering into the abyss: burns injuries -- Leaves on the tree of life: the donor tissue bank of Victoria -- Second skins: semi-living sculpture -- The skin we're in
- Control code
- 759837179
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (274 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781582438856
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- d9b581e1-c2ea-4257-b57f-b1b6aeadb7d9
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)759837179
- Label
- Original skin : exploring the marvels of the human hide, Maryrose Cuskelly
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-271)
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Empresses of the Japanese bath -- Skin: the body's envelope -- Touch me -- Melting pot: the colour of skin -- O, no! It is an ever-fix'd mark: scars, moles, and other blemishes -- Peculiar to humanity: blushing and tickling -- Unclean, unclean: skin and disease -- She's got perfect skin -- The lure of the tattoo -- Alison Whyte's boots: skinning and the human pelt -- Bound in human skin: anthropodermic bibliopegy -- You're nicked: the romance of fingerprints -- Peering into the abyss: burns injuries -- Leaves on the tree of life: the donor tissue bank of Victoria -- Second skins: semi-living sculpture -- The skin we're in
- Control code
- 759837179
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (274 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781582438856
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- d9b581e1-c2ea-4257-b57f-b1b6aeadb7d9
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)759837179
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