Hair!: Mankind's Historic Quest to End Baldness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812991581)

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 approved remedies for baldness and more are on the way while surgical techniques continue to improve, and even hairpieces are becoming acceptable again. Will baldness, the stigma it carries, and the profound psychological toll it takes on men soon be things of the past? Will bald men someday be electable? Are these even rhetorical questions?

Gersh Kuntzman takes you from the laboratories of Merck, maker of Propecia, to the operating rooms of the nation's best hair-transplant surgeons, to the rug men working on the cutting edge of artificial hair design. Hair covers baldness like nothing before.

Author: Gersh Kuntzman
ISBN-10: 0812991583
ISBN-13: 9780812991581
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 04/03/2001
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.60w x 0.51d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/2001 pg. 125