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The Body's Edge: Our Cultural Obsession with Skin

By Marc Lappé
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By Marc Lappé
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Our skin covers us in a mantle no thicker than this line of type, separating us from the outside by the thinnest of margins. It is the real and symbolic boundary between ourselves and the external world. It is there, at the body's edge, that some of the most interesting stories about human biology, mythology, medicine, and health are told, and Marc Lappe, author of several highly acclaimed science books, is the right person to tell them.

He discusses how the "newly discovered" permeabilit...

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