Baldness: A Social History

by Kerry Segrave

Book Overview

Each year, men spend an enormous amount of time and money searching for a cure to male pattern baldness. Numerous psychological assessments indicate that the reasons behind their futile efforts are sound: attitudes toward bald men are overwhelmingly negative. From the first torturous attempts at hair implants to the faddish, well-hyped drug treatments of today, the extremes to which men have gone in an effort to regrow hair or cover their bald scalps...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786440791
• ISBN13: 9780786440795
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher