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Theatres of surgery: The cultural pre-history of the face transplant

The first facial transplant, using a donor’s nose, chin and mouth, was performed on Isabelle Dinoire in France in 2005, but the idea of removing or replacing the face – either with a mask, or with a living face – has been around for much longer. This article explores the cultural pre-history of face...

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Autor principal: Biernoff, Suzannah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000 Research Limited 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6051199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30057945
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.14558.1