"Imagine yourself without a face--the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think of our 'self'. Yet, human faces are also functionally essential as mechanisms for communication and as a means of eatin...

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1. Verfasser:	Talley, Heather Laine (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York [u.a.] New York Univ. Press 2014
Schlagworte:	Aesthetics / Social asepcts Disfigured persons Face / Social aspects Physical-appearance-based bias Surgery, Plastic / Social aspects SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General MEDICAL / Dermatology SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General Gesellschaft Medizin Ästhetik Gesichtsplastik Körperliche Entstellung
Zusammenfassung:	"Imagine yourself without a face--the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think of our 'self'. Yet, human faces are also functionally essential as mechanisms for communication and as a means of eating, breathing, and seeing. For these reasons, facial disfigurement can endanger our fundamental notions of self and identity or even be life threatening, at worse. Precisely because it is so difficult to conceal our faces, the disfigured face compromises appearance, status, and, perhaps, our very way of being in the world.In Saving Face, sociologist Heather Laine Talley examines the cultural meaning and social significance of interventions aimed at repairing faces defined as disfigured.
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	IX, 259 S.
ISBN:	9780814784105 9780814784112