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Letter: Who or what gets custody of the cat?

Published 15 April 2015

From Mabs Taylor

I was interested by your article on the possibilities of swapping body parts (28 February, p 10). This was explored by Gordon Rattray Taylor in his 1968 book The Biological Time Bomb, raising some of the practical and ethical consequences of such procedures. One problem of a head/body swap that he foresaw would be deciding who owned the assets.
Knutsford, Cheshire, UK

Issue no. 3017 published 18 April 2015

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