Fay Bound Alberti

Fay Bound-Alberti is a British historian, author and Professor of History and Medicine. She has held positions at leading universities and specialises in the history of the body, emotions and medicine. Her interdisciplinary approach draws on history, literature, philosophy and science to explore how our understanding of the body has changed over time. The Face is her cultural history of the human face, exploring how faces have been understood, interpreted, decorated, modified and judged across centuries. The book examines everything from the science of facial recognition to the cultural politics of beauty, from physiognomy to plastic surgery, revealing how the face has always been a site of power, identity and meaning. Available as both a book and an audiobook, The Face offers fascinating listening and reading for anyone interested in the cultural history of the body and the extraordinary significance we attach to the most visible part of ourselves.