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170 pages, Paperback
First published September 25, 2017
That’s how clever the skin is, she said, it makes the bad things disappear
The condition might, he suggested, be similar in mechanism to an auto-immune disease: a potentially deadly, misdirected defence response. The skin in these .. cases was acting in aberrant ways, knitting together in disastrous patterns: might it be, he speculated, that the skin was attempting to protect the body from dangerous environmental pollutants, sealing the body off in the process.
For those with expensive tastes, protected food guaranteed an indoor reared product, with minimal exposure with atmospheric pollution and chemical treatment. Those who could afford to bought the special food, bought their face masks for high polution days, bought their private insurance for high-speed surgery. .... only poor people ever seemed to die from cutis, poor people far away, or poor people at home who didn't take care of themselves .... Only the feckless and faraway had anything to fear.