Approaching facial difference : past and present / edited by Patricia Skinner and Emily Cock.

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

x, 250 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

"What is a face and how does it relate to personhood? Approaching Facial Difference: Past and Present offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the many ways in which faces have been represented in the past and present, focusing on the issue of facial difference and disfigurement read in the light of shifting ideas of beauty and ugliness. Faces are central to all human social interactions, yet their study has been much overlooked by disability scholars and historians of medicine alike. By examining the main linguistic, visual and material approaches to the face from antiquity to contemporary times, contributors place facial diversity at the heart of our historical and cultural narratives. This cutting-edge collection of essays will be an invaluable resource for humanities scholars working across history, literature and visual culture, as well as modern practitioners in education and psychology."--From cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-246) and index.

Introduction: situating the different face / Patricia Skinner and Emily Cock -- Dis/enabling courtesy and chivalry in the Middle English and early modern Gawain romances and ballads / Bonnie Millar -- 'A great blemish to her beauty': female facial disfigurement in early modern England / Michelle Webb -- Does talking about disfigurement risk perpetuating stigma? / Jane Frances -- Hair loss as facial disfigurement in Ancient Rome? / Jane Draycott -- Portrait? Likeness? Composite? Facial difference in forensic art / Kathryn Smith -- From 'staring' to 'not caring': Development of psychological growth and wellbeing among adults with cleft lip and palate / Patricia Neville, Andrea Waylen, Sara Ryan and Aidan Searle -- Making up the female face: pain and imagination in the music videos of CocoRosie / Morna Laing -- Archaeological facial depiction for people from the past with facial differences / Caroline Wilkinson -- "Trotule (trotula) puts many things on to decorate and embellish the face but I intend solely to remove infection": L'Abbe Poutrel and his Chirurgerie c.1300 / Theresa Tyers -- Disrupting our sense of the past: medical photographs that push interpreters to the limits of historical analysis / Jason Bate.