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.
Diminishing their Voices: Face Transplants, Patients, and Social Media A video showing a woman inside a spider monkey enclosure at...
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.
From unideal circumstances to the “ideal” facial transplantation candidate: Lessons from visible difference research on the importance of patient-focused psychological...
Image credit: Len Rubenstein In 2007, Carmen Tarleton was attacked in bed by her ex-husband, who broke into the home...
Future Faces is one of four events and activities that AboutFace is running for the Being Human Festival in 2020....
By Dr Fay Bound Alberti After a month of lockdown, the UK has the second highest death rate from Coronavirus...
By Fay Bound Alberti The UK is in lockdown. The world as we know it has changed since the beginning...