Regulating facial recognition and other biometric technologies
This blog on regulating facial recognition is the third installment of our series on facial recognition. Don’t miss our first...
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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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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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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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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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When face transplants fail: Carmen Tarleton and the world’s second retransplant
Image credit: Len Rubenstein In 2007, Carmen Tarleton was attacked in bed by her ex-husband, who broke into the home...
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Portrait of an Angry Man – or not?
Part of our Emotions and Ethics series, ‘Portrait of an Angry Man’ is written by Juliet Roberts. Juliet is a...
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Picturing Death: Dealing with Post-Mortem Images
This blog post is part of our Emotions and Ethics series, following the webinar ‘Emotions and Ethics: the use and...
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Why We Should Think About Touch – Using Historical Photographs
Part of our Emotions and Ethics series, today’s blog on using historical photographs is written by Michaela Clark and includes...