New Thinking: About Face
Would you change your nose if you could? What about an entire face transplant? Historians Emily Cock and Fay Bound Alberti discuss facial difference and medical intervention in this podcast for BBC Radio 3. Follow this link to listen to the podcast.
Emily Cock, from the University of Cardiff looks at our relationship with our noses throughout history – from duels and sexual diseases to racial prejudice.
Fay Bound Alberti, PI for AboutFace, talks about the project and its aim to look at the emotional impact of this complex new surgery and to investigate the moral questions it raises, looking at the impact of facial difference in the age of the selfie, and the emergence of facial transplantation as a response to severe trauma. There have been fewer than 50 face transplants globally since the first was performed in 2005 and none in the UK to date.
This podcast was followed up in November 2020 by a new release with additional information on our Being Human Festival 2020 outputs. Listen to this version by clicking on this link.
