Disfigurement: Meaning of Facial Difference

Disfigurement: Meaning of Facial Difference

Thinking Aloud - Season 1, Episode 393

  • Dec 28, 2015 7:49 pm
  • 29:15 mins

Some people in our culture have faces which through birth or later trauma appear to be markedly different from most 'normal' faces.  Today on Thinking Aloud, Dr. Heather Laine Talley talks with host Marcus Smith about the meanings of that most seemingly noticeable of all differences and what it shows about our culture's attitudes towards beauty, the body, and social difference itself.