2015/09/25 by Susan Hardy, Anthony Corones · 6 citations
Arts and Humanities · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Fashion and Cultural Textiles #Historical Gender and Feminism Studies #Medicine and Dermatology Studies History
paper · doi:10.1080/1362704x.2015.1077653
openalex publication_date 2015/09/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
This article examines the change in medical dress from frock coats to white coats. The semiotics of dress is vital to understanding how and why this occurred. The article concludes that considerations of embodied identity deserve a place in the history of medicine, and that fashion theory can help illuminate aspects of medical practice that would otherwise remain invisible.