Fifteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

This study focuses on the interface of medical establishment and society. This interface is a shared boundary where the actual interaction and exchange of information between the medical establishment and the survivors, civil society organizations takes place. In order to understand this, reconstructive surgery for the acid attack survivors will be traced in the textbooks which are assigned in the undergraduate courses of medicine. Reconstructive surgery which began as a procedure of amputation was then utilised predominantly for other purposes such as in burns management. Here burns, especially chemical burns and reconstructive procedure will be examined through the lens of science and technology studies perspective. This research depicts the social processes that affects the shaping of technology and vice versa.