Professor Fay Bound Alberti and Dr Victoria Hoyle have published a new article in Medical Humanities.
This is the first written history of the contested surgical ambitions of the U.K. in the early 21st century, when a team at the Royal Free was poised to undertake the first face transplant in the world. Not only did that not happen, but also the U.K. has still not undertaken a face transplant. The reasons, as this article shows, are not merely technical, but cultural, emotional, political and institutional.
The article is available open access, and you can read it by following this link.
You may also be interested in our guest blog Barriers to Face Transplantation in the UK.