Touching the Human Significance of the Skin: Second Edition (Classic Reprint)

This book is about the skin as a tactile organ very much in volved, not alone physically but also behaviorally, in the growth and development of the organism. The central referent is man, and what happens or fails to happen to him as an infant by way of tactile experience, as affecting his subsequent behavioral de velopment, is my principal concern here. When I first started thinking about this subject in 1944 there was very little experimental evidence available bearing upon these matters. Today a considerable amount of such evidence has been made available by a large variety of investigators, and my lonely paper of 1953, The Sensory Influences of theS kin {T exas Reports on Biology and Medicine, vol. 2, 1953, pp. 291-301), is no longer alone. This book draws upon many sources of information, and notes citing these sources have been gathered in the Reference sec tion, where they are identified by the numbers of the pages and the line or lines on the pages where references or quotations occur. (T his system seemed preferable to using note numbers which interrupt the text. When notes are amplifications, sugges tions, or comments, however, rather than simple source cita tions, they are keyed to asterisks and appear on the same pages as the passages to which they refer.) The skin as an organ, the largest organ of the body, was very much neglected until quite recently.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read more