Atlas of Women's Dermatology

This color Atlas of Women’s Dermatology has been conceived to complement our book, Women’s Dermatology: From Infancy to Maturity1. Although that text was illustrated with some color photography, we wanted the opportunity to provide additional pictures of skin diseases afflicting girls and women. The word ‘atlas’ originally referred to the Greek god who held up ‘the pillars of the universe’. In medical publishing, it has come to mean a collection of illustrations, designed with the concept that one picture is worth a thousand words2. With the development of the Kodachrome™, also termed slides or diazopositives, enormous collections of dermatologic pictures were amassed, now augmented and even replaced with the advent of digital photography.