Brown Skin: Dr. Susan Taylor's Prescription for Flawless Skin, Hair, and Nails.by Dr. Susan C. Taylor Amistad Press, May 2003 $24.95, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-060-06871-0 Dr. Susan C. Taylor has not only provided a prescription for daily skin and hair care but a prescription for a beautiful healthy life. She's a Harvard-trained physician, an expert in dermatology and ethnic skin disease. Taylor is also director of the Skin of Color Center at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , the first center of this kind. The doctor has long awaited answers about skin of color. She talks about beauty basics, as well as major concerns affecting darker skins, such as the effects of sickle-cell disease, scars and keloids Keloids Definition Keloids are overgrowths of fibrous tissue or scars that can occur after an injury to the skin. These heavy scars are also called cheloid or hypertrophic scars. . The abnormal healing that creates keloid keloid /ke·loid/ (ke´loid) a sharply elevated, irregularly shaped, progressively enlarging scar due to excessive collagen formation in the dermis during connective tissue repair. scars may be more common in blacks, Dr. Taylor explains, because we tend to have larger cells in the dermal layer of skin responsible for making collagen. This book is an essential home health-care guide for African Americans because it explains the biological make up of people of color Noun 1. people of color - a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) people of colour, colour, color race - people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important by a doctor of color. Sylvanna Greene is a cosmetologist and co-owner of a skin-care and cosmetic line. |
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