Edited by Ricardo Azziz, with John E. Nestler and Didier Dewailly. 831 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lippincott–Raven, 1997. $152. ISBN 0-397-51721-1.
The Western ideal of beauty dictates acceptable locations forand amounts of body hair. For women, head and pubic hair aredesirable, but obvious hair growth on other areas of the bodyis not. As many as 35 percent of white women have hair on thechest, face, or lower abdomen, and many of them consider thisgrowth abnormal and seek a medical diagnosis. Such hair growthreflects the level of circulating androgens and tissue sensitivityto them. Many women with excess hair growth, or hirsutism, havenormal levels of circulating androgens but an increased tissuesensitivity that is a . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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