2023-10-17 11:55:10
How to repair jaws broken by wars, accidents or illness? Crossed perspectives of Professor Duvauchelle, pioneer of facial transplants and the anthropologist David Le Breton
Let us find ourselves around a terrible question, which touches the very essence of our humanity and our identity: how to reconstruct a face? How to repair jaws broken by war, accidents or illness? How to recover? A look back at more than 100 years of facial surgery, at the heart of the challenges and issues of repair, reconstruction, to restore human form to the injured and those injured in life… who only have the monstrous look they see. we bring them…
Broadcast around the conference The face of the future (history, medicine, surgery biology and art) organized by the Foundation of “broken faces” » and which took place on October 13 and 14.
With Bernard Devauchelle, doctor, in 2005 he piloted the first partial face transplant in the world. (facial repair, from its origins to the present day) and David LeBreton French anthropologist and sociologist, he is a specialist in the representations and uses of the human body for his book Faces, an anthropology published by Editions Métailié
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