Face transplantation and the anatomy of facelessness
Eur. j. anat
; 24(supl.1): 29-37, ago. 2020. ilus
Article
in English
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ABSTRACT
Heather Laine Talley locates the still-experimental technique of face transplantation within a contemporary 'disfigurement imaginary' that equates facial difference with social death. This paper extends Talley's account by considering the ideological and affective components of 'facelessness' as a shared cultural idea. The first part of the paper argues that 'facelessness' has a history that links the stigma of facial war injuries in early twentieth century Europe to current assumptions about the horror of disfigurement. The second part of the paper uses Georges Franju's Les Yeux sans Visage (Eyes Without a Face, 1959) to examine the aesthetics of horror and the uses of cinematic disgust. The paper concludes with a discussion of the 'framing' or management of disgust in the contexts of transplant medicine and anatomical illustration. Face transplantation, it is argued, presents a particular challenge to the 'spare parts' model that has dominated the biomedical approach to organ transfer
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Main subject:
Facial Transplantation
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Disgust
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Medical Illustration
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Eur. j. anat
Year:
2020
Document type:
Article
Institution/Affiliation country:
University of London/UK