Gaining face or losing face? Framing the debate on face transplants

Bioethics

Volumn 19, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 505-522

  Huxtable, Richard ^a   Woodley, Julie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ESTHETICS; FACE; FACE BURN; FACE MALFORMATION; FACE SURGERY; FACE TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IDENTITY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORTALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECIPIENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSPLANTATION;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

BODY IMAGE; COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; ETHICAL ANALYSIS; FACE; HUMANS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL VALUES; THERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 27344459164     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: 14678519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2005.00461.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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