Resources

Animated Introduction to AboutFace

AboutFace from Nifty Fox Creative on Vimeo. What would happen if you lost your face? Our faces are central to...

What needs to be done to make face transplants more sustainable and patient-centred?

What would happen if you lost your face? Could face transplants be the answer? And if face transplants are to...

Oral History or Personal Archive?

Sarah Hall explores tensions between oral histories and personal archives based on the AboutFace project for The Polyphony. In this...

A Blueprint for Sustainable Face Transplant Policy and Practice

A Collaborative Blueprint This report, A Blueprint for Face Transplant Policy and Practice, arises from our 3-day ‘Policy Lab’ with...

What we still don’t know about vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) outcomes and quality of life measurements

New Co-authored article on VCA and Quality of Life Vascularized composite allotransplants (VCA) are the only organ transplants purported to...

Faces of York: Walking Trail

Welcome to our walking trail of York, where you’ll be taken on a journey around the city searching for depictions...

Remote Relations: A (Very Brief) History of Teletherapy – Hannah Zeavin

In this talk, Zeavin interrogates what therapy becomes when the traditional therapist is replaced by a computational actor, which she terms as “Auto-Intimacy."

Face transplants 2003-2021: where are we now and what have we learnt?

Prof Fay Bound Alberti and Dr Matthew Ridley have published a piece on the complicated history of face transplantation in the Bulletin of The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Experiencing Placebo: Toward a Biocultural History of the Brain – Rob Boddice

Rob Boddice spoke on ‘Experiencing Placebo: Toward a Biocultural History of the Brain’ at this research seminar run as part of the ‘Emotions, history and the Body’ research seminar series.

“What are you historically classified as?” Reflections of an Historian in Health Sciences in a Time of Transformation

This webinar, “What are you historically classified as?” Reflections of an Historian in Health Sciences in a Time of Transformation,’...

Face Transplants: An International History

New Article: Face Transplants: An International History Face transplants have attracted global media and public attention since the 1990s. The...

‘A Procedure Without a Problem’, or the face transplant that didn’t happen. The Royal Free, the Royal College of Surgeons and the challenge of surgical firsts

A new article published by Professor Fay Bound Alberti and Dr Victoria Hoyle is now available.

First Full Face Transplant in the USA

In March 2011, Dallas Wiens became the first full face transplant recipient in the USA. A team of over 30...

From Corporeal Ethics to Carnal Instincts: Sexual Desires in the Long-Eighteenth Century

We are pleased to share the video of Katie Barclay’s presentation for the ‘Emotions, History and the Body’ research seminar,...

How a Transplanted Face Transformed Katie Stubblefield’s Life

At AboutFace, we want to make resources available to help people learn more about face transplants. Katie Stubblefield’s story, documented...

What’s in a Face?

Following the successful panel discussion held as part of the Being Human Festival in 2020, we are delighted to share...

(Re)Framing the Face: A Being Human Video

Developed in collaboration with artist Clare Whistler and Filmmaker Barry Gibb, this film explores the connections between hands, faces, and...

From Hand to Face: A Being Human Video

Developed in collaboration with Lucy Burscough's Dab Hands project, From Hand to Face is a video produced for the Being Human Festival, 2020. With the theme of 'New Worlds,' this was the perfect opportunity to draw connections between face transplants, an experimental form of surgery, and what it means to be human.