Posthumanist developments: face transplants?

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 11:53:46 MST


Oh, now this is really interesting. The BBC is reporting
that face transplants may be feasible soon and there should
be some discussion of the ethics of doing this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2516181.stm

/.:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/27/1639243&mode=thread&tid=134

Has this ever been discussed or thought about on the list before?
(Maybe morphable faces or cameleon faces -- but actual *transplants*?)

So if you can transplant faces, why can't you transplant fingerprints.
There has to be a Hollywood adventure film in these ideas someplace.
And it goes without saying at least a series of 7 horror films.

Now of course, if you can transplant an entire face, it seems to make
sense that you could transplant half a face. So on my left half
I have Anders and on my right half I have Damien but inside I'm Robert.
What a strange concept. The only problem might be getting Anders and
Damien to donate their faces to me.

Robert

Oh yes, and the Human-Mouse chimeras met the /. discussion hurdle.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/27/139214&mode=thread&tid=134



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