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The hidden racist history of hair loss

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par Glen Jankowski, Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University

Hair loss is common in men and women, particularly with age – for example, androgenetic alopecia (or pattern baldness) affects 80% of men and 40% of women. For the most part, it can be physically inconsequential.

Yet, modern society has a distaste for hair loss. Look at how news stories have speculated about whether ten-year-old Prince George and his younger brother, Louis, will inherit their father’s “baldness…

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