The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.

Elizabeth Archibald, Durham University, UK David Bintley, Birmingham Royal Ballet, UK David Fuller, University of Durham, UK Sander L. Gilman, Emory University, USA Ludmilla Jordanova, Durham University, UK Jane Macnaughton, Durham University, UK Mark A. McIntosh, Loyola University Chicago, USA John Onians, University of East Anglia, UK Michael Symmons Roberts, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Corinne Saunders, Durham University, UK Roger Scruton, independent scholar, UK Simon Thurley, English Heritage, UK Anne Whitehead, Newcastle University, UK