Disfigured Faces, “Accursed Ugliness”, and Hollywood
Paddy Adamson on Hollywood's obsession with disfigured faces, and the negative impact such representations have on understandings of disfigurement.
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‘Like Changing a Windshield on a Car’ – Transplantation and The Eye (2008)
This piece on transplantation and The Eye (2008) is the second blog in our series on Halloween, Horror Films, transplantation and the face. In this installment, Lauren Stephenson (York St John) explores the tensions between science and the body, and matters of the soul and the self.
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Artificial Intelligence and Facial Discrimination
CEO of Face Equality International, Phyllida Swift, explains the relationship between artificial intelligence and facial discrimination
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Facial Recognition: From Face Blindness to Super Recognisers
This blog is part of our series on facial recognition. Check out our first blog on this theme, by AboutFace...
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Before and After? What the humanities bring to medical images
While before-and-after photographs serve an important medical function in recording a physical journey, our research goes behind these images to understand patients’ journeys, including the emotional and physical journey they go through.
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A Hidden Community: The Movement for Face Equality
A Hidden Community: The Movement for Face Equality Facial disfigurement is a globally neglected human rights issue By Phyllida Swift...
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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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History has Many Faces: researching histories of facial surgery
History has Many Faces This is a post about the conditions in which I am able to research facial difference...
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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...
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Perceptions of the Face: Our Online Experience
I recently watched the ‘What’s in a Face?’ panel conversation, which was held as part of the Being Human Festival...