Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe
Editorial: Springer Nature
Licencia: Creative Commons (by)
Autor(es): Skinner, Patricia
"Probably from a social point of view, a simple facial disfigurement is the
worst disability of all—the quickly-suppressed flicker of revulsion is, I am
certain, quite shattering."1 This statement, made by a person reflecting on
his own social challenges living as a muscular dystrophy sufferer in in the
1960s, expresses succinctly the horror that facial disfigurement holds for
modern observers, and its perceived place in the spectrum of social disability. Whilst modern medicine has in the intervening five decades largely perfected the process of "improving" the appearance of the disfigured face through prosthetics, surgery, skin grafts and sophisticated cosmetics, the aesthetic and technical genius of some modern medical prosthetics units is often up against deep-rooted psychological damage in the subject, which finds its expression in dissatisfaction with the "new" facial features, and may even lead to outright rejection.
[Europ: 2017]
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