Reporting Skin and the Wounded Body in Victorian Britain

Diana Garrisi is a lecturer in journalism at the School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC), Cardiff University. She is co-editor of Disability, Media and Representations: Other Bodies (2020) and Journalism Pedagogy in Transitional Countries (2022). In 2015, she received the Samuel J. Zakon Award in the History of Dermatology.

• Chapter 1: Dermatology and the Making of News in Victorian Britain.- Chapter 2: Skin as a Medium: Historical and Cultural Perspectives.- Chapter 3: Skin as Antithesis: The Lure of Newspapers for Opposites.- Chapter 4: Skin as Forensic Evidence: The Times Coverage of the Flogging of   Private White.- Chapter 5: Skin in Pieces: the Fragment as a Narrative Device.- Chapter 6: Skin as an Epistemic Tool: Wound Care and Social Reform.- Chapter 7: The Body as Utensil: Framing Occupational Skin Diseases.- Chapter 8: Skin as a Canvas: The Origins of Facial Disfigurement.- Chapter 9: Media Histories of Skin.