Stories
- In pictures
War and disfigurement
The fighting methods of World War I brought with them a huge increase in disfiguring facial injury. See how surgeons and sculptors helped injured men face the world again.
- Article
Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
- Article
Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
- Article
The ‘epileptic’ in art and science
From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Loso: Disfigurement
Date: 1987-1988Reference: SA/WHL/15/15Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Books
Living with disfigurement in early medieval Europe / Patricia Skinner.
Skinner, Patricia, 1965-Date: [2017]- Books
Changes Faces is about enabling everyone to face disfigurement with confidence / Changing Faces.
Changing Faces (Organisation)Date: [2007]- Books
Face value : looking beyond facial disfigurement.
Partridge, JamesDate: 1994- Books
Face it : facial disfigurement and my fight for face equality / James Partridge.
Partridge, JamesDate: 2020