Special operations: a hidden chapter in the histories of facial surgery and human enhancement.
aesthetic/plastic and reconstructive/cosmetic surgery
history
law
medical ethics/bioethics
medical humanities
Journal
Medical humanities
ISSN: 1473-4265
Titre abrégé: Med Humanit
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 100959585
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2020
Jun 2020
Historique:
accepted:
21
02
2020
pubmed:
8
7
2020
medline:
29
4
2021
entrez:
8
7
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
During the Second World War, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE), a secret service established to encourage resistance and carry out sabotage, employed various techniques of enhancing the ability of its personnel to operate undetected in enemy territory. One of these methods was surgery. Drawing on recently declassified records, this article illuminates SOE's reasons for commissioning this procedure, the needs and wants of those who received it, and the surgeons employed to carry it out. It also aims to underline the role of context in shaping perceptions of facial surgery, and the potential for surgery for wartime disguise to resonate with current debates about human enhancement.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32631975
pii: medhum-2019-011792
doi: 10.1136/medhum-2019-011792
pmc: PMC7402463
doi:
Types de publication
Historical Article
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
115-123Subventions
Organisme : Wellcome Trust
ID : 203132
Pays : United Kingdom
Informations de copyright
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing interests: None declared.
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