Silence, surgery and strangeness: face transplant and the film Eyes without a Face/Les yeux sans visage (1960)
Written by Sara Wasson, this blog explores the 1960 French-language horror film Les yeux sans visage or Eyes Without a Face
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Transplantation narratives on screen: a Halloween blog series
This October, we're countering the casual exploitation of horror narratives around appearance and the limits of the body, reflecting on transplantation narratives on film with a guest blog series.
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The making of a blueprint. How historical, qualitative research should inform face transplant policy and practice.
The making of a blueprint. How historical, qualitative research should inform face transplant policy and practice. In December 2021, the...
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Jérôme Hamon and the world’s first facial retransplant
There have been fewer than 50 face transplants in the world since 2005, and only two people have undergone the...
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AboutFace: a project roundup for 2021
As we near the end of 2021, the AboutFace team has been reflecting on the year so far. It’s been...
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Diminishing their Voices: Face Transplants, Patients, and Social Media
Diminishing their Voices: Face Transplants, Patients, and Social Media A video showing a woman inside a spider monkey enclosure at...
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Why hasn’t it happened yet? Barriers to face transplantation in the UK
Why hasn’t it happened yet? Barriers to face transplantation in the UK There have been 48 face transplants around the...
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Robert Chelsea and the First African American Face Transplant: Two Years On
Robert Chelsea and the First African American Face Transplant: Two Years On By Fay Bound Alberti On 27 July 2019,...
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Lifesaving or Life-Enhancing? The First Emergency Face Transplant
In April 2013, a Polish stonemason, Grzegorz Galasiński, received the world's first 'emergency' face transplant after an industrial accident. The operation was performed within three weeks of injury, and was the first face transplant performed in Poland. For the first time, doctors described the surgery as life-saving, rather than life-enhancing. Consultant plastic and aesthetic surgeon Dan Saleh reflects on this surgery in our latest guest blog.
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Sensational Surgery: What does ‘success’ look like after face and double hand transplant?
—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love)— … Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art” Sensational Surgery: What does ‘success’ look...