Disfigured Faces, “Accursed Ugliness”, and Hollywood
Paddy Adamson on Hollywood's obsession with disfigured faces, and the negative impact such representations have on understandings of disfigurement.
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Before and After? What the humanities bring to medical images
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.
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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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Robert Chelsea and the First African American Face Transplant: Two Years On
Robert Chelsea and the First African American Face Transplant: Two Years On By Fay Bound Alberti On 27 July 2019,...
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Entwined practices: ethical engagements with medical photography in historical enquiry
Part of our Emotions and Ethics series, this guest blog on medical photography in historical enquiry is written by workshop...
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Framing the face – a filmmaker’s perspective
Dr Barry James Gibbbarryjamesgibb.com As a filmmaker, I’m in the business of reading faces. And, while it would be easy...