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.
This blog on regulating facial recognition is the third installment of our series on facial recognition. Don’t miss our first...
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.
As we near the end of 2021, the AboutFace team has been reflecting on the year so far. It’s been...
A Hidden Community: The Movement for Face Equality Facial disfigurement is a globally neglected human rights issue By Phyllida Swift...
Why hasn’t it happened yet? Barriers to face transplantation in the UK There have been 48 face transplants around the...
Robert Chelsea and the First African American Face Transplant: Two Years On By Fay Bound Alberti On 27 July 2019,...
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.
—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love)— … Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art” Sensational Surgery: What does ‘success’ look...