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| Chapter title |
Historical Background of Itch
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|---|---|
| Chapter number | 1 |
| Book title |
Pharmacology of Itch
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| Published in |
Handbook of experimental pharmacology, January 2016
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| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-662-44605-8_1 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Book ISBNs |
978-3-66-244604-1, 978-3-66-244605-8
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| Authors |
Elke Weisshaar, Wolfgang U. Eckart, Jeffrey D. Bernhard, Weisshaar, Elke, Eckart, Wolfgang U., Bernhard, Jeffrey D. |
| Abstract |
Itch as a disease, and especially as a symptom, was the object of medical and scientific curiosity for centuries. The reluctance of historians to focus on the history of itch relates to its nature as a subjective symptom. After all, how can historians have known what itch really felt like in previous centuries? Since the establishment of dermatology as an independent discipline of medicine in the middle of the nineteenth century, itch has become a subject of investigation in its own right. This chapter summarises research we conducted on the medical history of itch in ancient medicine and up through the twentieth century. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Guinea | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 17 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 18% |
| Other | 2 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 2 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 6% |
| Researcher | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 7 | 41% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 18% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 12% |
| Neuroscience | 1 | 6% |
| Chemistry | 1 | 6% |
| Engineering | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 8 | 47% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 March 2023.
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