Levinas and the Other in Narratives of Facial Disfigurement by Gudrun M. Grabher

Author:Gudrun M. Grabher [Grabher, Gudrun M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Sociology
ISBN: 9781351617598
Google: sQuWDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-30T04:54:06+00:00

No Hawthorne expert (or learned reader) would disagree with this verdict. But the surgeons’ final denouement from a late twentieth-century medical perspective may come as a surprise to the reader unfamiliar with the current field of plastic surgery. Mulliken and Young leave no room for doubt that “[t]oday, medical science still does not have a satisfactory treatment for Georgiana’s vascular birthmark” (21). But it is this concession that entails these surgeons’ scientific avowal that they

must continue, in a scientific spirit, to find remedies. We cannot accept the laboratory technician’s view that a birthmark should not be removed, a Calvinistic orthodoxy of unquestioned acceptance of man’s imperfection. However, Hawthorne’s tale also instructs us never to lose human contact as we struggle to care for patients with vascular anomalies.

(Mulliken and Young 22)

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