Faces Inside and Outside the Clinic

'This book is excellent in every dimension: originality, significance, scope of argument...demonstrating that medical knowledge is always situated and showing the relevance of Foucault's work to our understanding of the contemporary patient as medical subject.' Arthur Frank, University of Calgary, Canada 'Much has been written from outside the clinic about the body and the technologies that are employed to refashion it. This remarkable volume however is written by a surgeon from inside the clinic. The result is an authoritative but compassionate study of the face, its ontological complexity and its diverse cultural meanings.' Bryan S. Turner, The City University of New York, USA 'This is a fascinating account of the face and its surgical modification by an oral plastic surgeon and scholar of Foucault. The angle of vision McHugh brings to the subject of cosmetic surgery is unique and imaginative; it is both theoretically sophisticated and grounded in the embodied experiences of patients and surgeons both inside and outside the clinic.' Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA 'This thoughtful, stimulating book will be of potential interest not just to those interested in the substantive topic who have some familiarity with Foucauldian approaches, but also to those wanting to amend Foucault with other theorists, the better to account for material embodiment, agency, and lived experience.' Canadian Journal of Sociology