Media
Videos, podcasts and publications
Broadcasts, interviews, courses, books, scientific articles and press.
Videos
Interviews and broadcasts
Advice before having cosmetic surgery
M6 TV programme
Women's cosmetic surgery: surgery of the image or the magic of surgery?
7th ASF symposium at the French Senate, 2024 · “The image of women's bodies, past and present: a right?”
Breast implants: latest developments
Interview by Dr V. Mitz
Ethnic rhinoplasty
Interview by Dr V. Mitz
Neck lift
Interview by Dr V. Mitz
Day surgery
Video
Surgical imagesBreast reduction: the vertical clamp technique
Technique developed by Dr Knipper
⚠︎ Some videos contain images of surgical procedures that some viewers may find disturbing. The thumbnails concerned are blurred.
Find all the videos on Dr P. Knipper’s YouTube channel ↗
Podcasts
Two podcasts
Chirurgie d’histoires (in French)
Dr Patrick Knipper interviewed by his daughter Victoria. Episodes about encounters on missions, life stories, patients’ stories… (in French)
Doc’Humanitaires
The podcast of the NGO Actions Santé Femmes (ASF), in French.
Teaching
Courses on surgery in challenging conditions
Inter-university diploma in humanitarian surgery and exceptional health situations · Sorbonne University Faculty of Medicine. Surgical images for healthcare professionals only.
Book
Peaux de chagrin
Plastic surgery in the service of humanity
A first-hand account by Dr Patrick Knipper of his missions carried out all over the world (in French).
Books
Other books
L’humanitaire en chirurgie maxillo-faciale et en chirurgie plastique
Brings together leading specialists in humanitarian maxillofacial and plastic surgery from France, Switzerland, Belgium, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso, together with anaesthetists, public health specialists, nurses and physiotherapists.
Living Museum · MUVACANThe Healing Arts in Africa
From tradition to traditional medicine: the journey of a sick person in Black Africa seeking relief.
Publications
Scientific articles
Articles, papers and reviews to download.
- Nomadic plastic surgery: from healthcare huts to war-zones. Our experience over 30 years
Hand Surgery and Rehabilitation · 2023PDF · 5.5 MB - Plastic surgery and armed conflict: our experience during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war (Armenia) (in French)
Annales de chirurgie plastique, reconstructrice et esthétique · June 2021PDF · 2.9 MB - Humanitarian mission: surgical treatment of burns sequelae in the bush
P. Knipper, P. Antoine, C. Carré, D. Vasse · Annals of Plastic and Reconstructive SurgeryPDF · 1.1 MB - Management of burn sequelae in a dispensary: our experience over 20 years (in French)
ArticlePDF · 383 KB - Upper limb amputations: cosmetic and ethnic aspects (in French)
Article · 2023PDF · 254 KB - Nomadic plastic surgery: 1 NGO, 10 years, 30 missions (in French)
Annales de chirurgie plastiquePDF · 2.7 MB - Plastic surgery in challenging conditions
Article · 2017PDF · 663 KB - Ethno-surgery, or the view of the other on a mission (in French)
Revue de Stomatologie et de Chirurgie Maxillo-faciale · 2016PDF · 474 KB - Nomadic plastic surgery (in French)
VSD report · Pascal VilaPDF · 1.7 MB - Beauty at the service of humanity: a review on the therapeutic value of aesthetic treatments
Eva CarpigoPDF · 154 KB - Full list of communications and publications
PDFPDF · 235 KB
Press
In the press
- RFI · Priorité Santé · Buruli ulcer · 11 July 2023↗
- RFI · Priorité Santé · Amputations · 2 December 2020↗
- RFI · Priorité Santé · Hand injuries · 5 February 2020↗
- Le Point · Yerevan burns centre · report by Gilles Bader · 9 November 2020↗
- TV5 Monde Info · Nagorno-Karabakh conflict · 25 October 2020↗
- Santé Magazine · Hebron: a hospital in the heart of the fighting · 2015↗
- Pourquoi Docteur · When cosmetic surgery becomes humanitarian↗
- Femme Actuelle · When cosmetic surgery is humanitarian↗
Links