Trying to get under the skin of it all

摘要

Readers who are not bored to death with skin (there seems to have been an abundance of items on skin conditions in The Journal recently) might find the Wellcome Collection's new summer exhibition of interest. When dermatology ?let alone pharmacists specialising in the subject ?did not exist is where "Skin" begins. "The message that we would like to give visitors is perhaps that the most visible organ of the human body has not always been as important as we think," says Javier Moscoso, research professor of history and philosophy of science at the Spanish National Research Council and the exhibition curator.