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Letter: Getting ahead

Published 25 March 2015

From Luke Ferris

Helen Thomson’s article on head transplants was exciting stuff. I generally feel the stir of a good debate to be quite healthy.

Surely though, in line with current transplant procedures, in which the new body part is featured in the title of the operation – heart, liver, kidney, etc – the proper name for Sergio Canavero’s procedure should be a body transplant.
London, UK

Issue no. 3014 published 28 March 2015

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