Sharrona Pearl (University of Pennsylvania)
New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Columbia University, City University of New York, The New York Academy of Sciences andThe New York Academy of Medicine
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 6:00 pm EDT
Fayerweather Hall Room #513, Columbia University
1180 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10027 United States
Both like and not like cosmetic surgery and whole organ transplants, facial allografts have proven difficult to categorize. This talk will show how bioethicists, surgeons, and journalists have conceptualized face transplants as neither and both, and the resulting stakes for each. Paying particular attention to the media coverage of Isabelle Dinoire’s partial facial allograft in 2005, Pearl will discuss the implications of the cosmetic frame and the whole organ frame for the bioethical debates around FAT.