Frank Gonzalez-Crussi

Professor Emeritus of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

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Frank Gonzalez-Crussi is professor emeritus of pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. He is the author of many books on medicine and the body, including Notes of an Anatomist (1985), A Short History of Medicine (2007) and The Body Fantastic (2021).

Written by Frank Gonzalez-Crussi

Photo of a boy getting a haircut by a hairdresser, hair partially shaved, grimacing expression, in a busy salon.
THE BODY AND PHYSICAL HEALTH

Shaggy and strong, or shorn and sharp? Hair’s evolving symbolism

Spartan soldiers combed their locks before battle, today’s military men go shaven-headed. On the changing symbolism of hair

by Frank Gonzalez-Crussi