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Preface to the American Edition 1. The Depth of the Surface:Introduction 2. Boundary Metaphors: Skin in Language 3. Penetrations: BodyBoundaries and the Production of Knowledge in Medicine and Cultural Practices4. Flayings: Exposure, Torture, Metamorphoses 5. Mirror of the Soul: TheEpidermis as Canvas 6. Mystification: The Strangeness of the Skin 7. ArmoredSkin and Birthmarks: The Imagology of a Gender Difference 8. Different Skin:Skin Colors in Literature and the History of Science 9. Blackness: Skin Colorin African-American Discourse 10. Hand and Skin: Anthropology and Iconographyof the Cutaneous Senses 11. Touchings: On the Analogous Nature of Erotic,Emotive, and "Psychic" Skin Sensations 12. Teletactility: The Skin in NewMedia