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...
There have been fewer than 50 face transplants in the world since 2005, and only two people have undergone the...
History has Many Faces This is a post about the conditions in which I am able to research facial difference...
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.
From unideal circumstances to the “ideal” facial transplantation candidate: Lessons from visible difference research on the importance of patient-focused psychological...
Image credit: Len Rubenstein In 2007, Carmen Tarleton was attacked in bed by her ex-husband, who broke into the home...
Part of our Emotions and Ethics series, ‘Portrait of an Angry Man’ is written by Juliet Roberts. Juliet is a...
This blog post is part of our Emotions and Ethics series, following the webinar ‘Emotions and Ethics: the use and...
Part of our Emotions and Ethics series, today’s blog on using historical photographs is written by Michaela Clark and includes...
The next installment of our Emotions and Ethics series is written by Beatriz Pichel, who is Senior Lecturer in Photographic...
The next blog in our Emotions and Ethics series is about teaching the history of sexuality with difficult images, and...