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Face/On
- Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other
Engelsk Paperback
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Face/On
- Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other
Engelsk Paperback

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Are our identities attached to our faces? If so, what happens when the face connected to the self is gone forever or replaced? In Face/On, Sharrona Pearl investigates the stakes for changing the face and the changing stakes for the face in both contemporary society and the sciences. The first comprehensive cultural study of face transplant surgery, Face/On reveals our true relationships to faces and facelessness, explains the significance we place on facial manipulation, and decodes how we understand loss, reconstruction, and transplantation of the face. To achieve this, Pearl draws on a vast array of sources: bioethical and medical reports, newspaper and television coverage, performances by pop culture icons, hospital records, personal interviews, films, and military files. She argues that we are on the cusp of a new ethics, in an opportune moment for reframing essentialist ideas about appearance in favor of a more expansive form of interpersonal interaction. Accessibly written and respectfully illustrated, Face/On offers a new perspective on face transplant surgery as a way to consider the self and its representation as constantly present and evolving. Highly interdisciplinary, this study will appeal to anyone wishing to know more about critical interventions into recent medicine, makeover culture, and the beauty industry.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780226461366
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022646136X
Udg. Dato:
12 apr 2017
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
154mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
12 apr 2017
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