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Over at Newsweek, Hannah Osborne is reporting - First Human Head Transplant Successfully Performed on Corpse, Sergio Canavero Announces — Key bits:
Scientists have carried out a head transplant on a human corpse, the neurosurgeon behind the operation has announced.
At a press conference in Vienna, Austria, Sergio Canavero said his team was able to remove the head from one body and connect it to the body of another by fusing the spine, nerves and blood vessels. He said the next step will be to carry out the operation on a living person, The Telegraph reports.
"The first human transplant on human cadavers has been done. A full head swap between brain dead organ donors is the next stage,” he said. "And that is the final step for the formal head transplant for a medical condition which is imminent.”
Canavero said a “high number” of people have volunteered to be his first head transplant patient. It is thought he will carry out the operation in China in December.
Because, of course, some of us are aware of the special dynamics of the intersection between Ethics, Journalism, and the Chinese government.
And then the next kicker to sufficiently anti-bait the click:
The Italian neurosurgeon did not present any evidence of his claims at the conference.
But, who knows what gruesome story we'll hear about in December.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by acid andy on Tuesday November 21 2017, @09:37AM (2 children)
Clearly, it's a body transplant! If you have a liver transplant, that means someone else's liver was grafted into your body. So, if you have a head transplant, that means someone else's head was...
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @01:44PM (1 child)
If you have a body transplant, someone else's body was grafted into your body?
(Score: 1) by MindEscapes on Tuesday November 21 2017, @02:22PM
Yes, if we maintain that who a person is, resides within their mental being. The thing being donated is the body to which it will be attached. This is a body transplant. The person we expect it to be after the transplant is not whom donated the body.
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