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When will Professor Canavero be performing the first human head transplant?
Have any rabbonim publicly discussed the halachic issues related to head transplants yet?
If the professor might be able to repair the spinal cords of humans, like he did in rats, is it ethical for him to offer a head transplant to someone, who is paralyzed, over a spinal cord repair?
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He’s gonna make someone change his mind
LB: “Have any rabbonim publicly discussed the halachic issues related to head transplants yet?”
Why should they?
My son was just asking me if I had heard about this topic. I told him that I’m of two minds on the whole issue.
I just read an article: “Dr. Marc Siegel: Here’s why human head transplants will never work”.
A related scenario would be keeping a fully functioning disembodied head alive. The article doesn’t address that.
Why would it be controversial?
Of course it isnt really a “Head transplant” rather it is a body transplant.
Hearts, Kidneys, Pancreas, Liver, Lungs and to a lesser extent colons are all routinly transplanted. This fellow is receiving all of the above plus hands, feet, torso stomach etc. But why would it be any more controversial than individual organs ?
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