Eye of the Beholder : True Stories of People with Facial Differences

by Laura Greenwald

• ISBN13: 9781607140832
• ISBN10: 1607140837
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-02
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing

Summary

Through these and other riveting true stories, Laura Greenwald introduces us to people born With severe facial differences or whose faces have been changed forever because of injury or disease. From the three pound, half face silver mask fashioned for a french soldier in the 1830s to today's pioneering facial transplants, Greenwald examines the life changing medical advances in facial reconstruction that are changing lives.

Author Biography

Laura Greenwald interviewed dozens of individuals, families, and experts in writing Eye of the Beholder. She is Senior Manager of Creative Services/Editorial at the renowned Cleveland Clinic.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
Nothing Is Normal	p. 1
What Is a Face?	p. 21
Where Thou Leadest Me	p. 33
The Gunner with the Silver Mask	p. 55
The Dog Ate My Eye	p. 67
Little Prizefighter	p. 83
The Viking	p. 109
I Gotta Be Me	p. 123
Not Just Another Pretty Face	p. 143
Finding Kim	p. 167
Our Child, Our Heart	p. 187
A Posse ad Esse: From Possibility to Actuality	p. 207
Living Between Worlds	p. 221
Give and Take	p. 241
Resource	p. 255
Chapter References	p. 261
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