nemo@rochester.UUCP (Wolfe) (11/13/84)
... > Consider: X is severely injured in a car accident, and is completely > paralysed from the neck down. He is offered the choice of life in > a wheelchair, with only his facial muscles to control things, or > the transplant of a baboon's body. He chooses the baboon, and we > have a human head on a baboon's body. Is it human? Does the brain > alone make it human? Should a doctor perform this kind of operation, > if it's what X wants? > > Dave Sherman > Toronto > -- > { allegra cornell decvax ihnp4 linus utzoo }!utcsrgv!dave Did anyone see the checkout aisle tabloid's headline of a few weeks ago about a human head transplant? I don't take those UFO's-and-new-diet type rags seriously, but regret that I didn't buy this one just for the headline. But really, how close is medical science to performing that kind of an operation successfully? Nemo