"What is a face and how does it relate to personhood? Approaching Facial Difference: Past and Present offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the many ways in which faces have been represented in the past and present, focusing on the issue of facial difference and disfigurement read in the light of shifting ideas of beauty and ugliness. Faces are central to all human social interactions, yet their study has been much overlooked by disability scholars and historians of medicine alike. By examining the main linguistic, visual and material approaches to the face from antiquity to contemporary…
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Editions
4 editions
Hardcover · English · 2018
Bloomsbury Academic · 264 pages · 9781350028296
Other · English · 2019
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781350142978
Other · English · 2018
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781350028319
Other · English · 2018
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781350028302
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