Name: Face (en Inglés)
SKU: 62053532
Price: 147.95 USD
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Author: Sharrona Pearl

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Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Chicago Press

Autor

Sharrona Pearl

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780226461229

Face (en Inglés)

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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.