The Social Consequences of Facial Disfigurement

ISBN-13: 9781138360198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 318 str.

Michael J. Hughes

Opis

First published in 1998, this volume recognises that the face is important in human relationships and a facially impaired person is therefore disadvantaged.

Spis treści

Part 1. Spoiled Identity. 1. The Sociology of Stigma. 2. An Anthropological View. 3. Professional Perspectives. 4. Voices of Experience. Part 2. Helping Disfigured People. 5. Mutual Help Groups. Part 3. An Empirical Enquiry. 6. Methodology. 7. The Experience of Illness and Treatment. 8. Survival. 9. One Year Later. 10. Testing the Hypotheses.

O autorze

Hughes, Michael J.