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Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance
出版NYU Press, 2014
主題MEDICAL / DermatologyMedical / Surgery / Cosmetic & ReconstructivePhilosophy / AestheticsPsychology / Social PsychologySocial Science / Anthropology / GeneralSOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority StudiesSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Discrimination
ISBN147984005X9781479840052
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Na4TBAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"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.