Ringworm and Irradiation

Introduction Shifra Shvarts and Siegal Sadetzki Chapter 1 Ringworm of the scalp: the history of an ancient disease Ciro Burstein Chapter 2 Radiation epilation for ringworm: scientific and historical aspects M. Raphael Pfeffer Chapter 3 The ringworm children at the Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris: from medical neglect to bio-social obsession Gérard Tilles Chapter 4 Ringworm: a disease of schools and mass schooling in the UK Aya Homei and Michael Worboys Chapter 5 The JDC-Joint and OSE campaign for eradication of ringworm in the Jewish community in Eastern Europe and North Africa Shifra Shvarts, Pnina Romem, Itzhak Romem, Mordechai Shani Chapter 6 The ringworm campaign in Serbia (Yugoslavia) in the 1950s Shifra Shvarts, Goran Sevo, Marija Tasic, Mordechai Shani, Siegal Sadetzki Chapter 7 The ringworm campaign in Portugal, 1940-1970: an historical review and present evaluation of X-ray-epilated individuals Paula Boaventura, Dina Pereira, Paula Soares, and José Teixeira-Gomes Chapter 8 "Deadly Medicine": Michael Rees's Pandora's box and the campaign to warn the public of the late health effects of ionizing radiation in the United States Itai Bavli and Shifra Shvarts Chapter 9 The campaign to eradicate ringworm in Israel, 1925-1960 Shifra Shvarts, Aya Bar Oz, Eli Shachar, Sari Levi, Sigal Samchi, Itai Bavli Chapter 10 "Think before you act": Ringworm research in Israel, 1965-1995 Siegal Sadetzki Chapter 11 The muted voices of the ringworm patients and their families, worldwide Liat Hoffer