| #1086394 in eBooks | 2001-04-03 | 2001-04-03 | File type: PDF||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Covering a Big Problem|By Rob Hardy|A bright and funny book, _Hair! Mankind's Historic Quest to End Baldness_ (AtRandom.com) by Gersh Kuntzman takes up the causes, stigma, and above all the treatments for baldness. It has a hilarious and scary section on the quack cures for the "loathsome disease," but concentrates on the real cures or crutches. There are now treatments for|From Library Journal|From Egypt and ancient Rome right up to the snake-oil concoctions of the last century, Kuntzman (a New York journalist) relates a history "of failed promises, fake cures, misplaced hopes and bitter disappointment." For some men and women, lo
Hair! Mankind's Historic Quest to End Baldness is a social history of one of humanity's most irksome problems: male pattern baldness.
Throughout the centuries, Man (not his real name) has tried everything to hide, treat and repair baldness, as well as a host of nostrums designed to coax hair growth from the scalp (or, at least, money from the wallets of unsuspecting baldies). Yet we stand on the brink of a truly historic epoch: Two drugs are now federally ap...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Hair!: Mankind's Historic Quest to End Baldness | Gersh Kuntzman. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
