The phenomenon of Canavero
https://doi.org/10.15825/1995-1191-2017-4-146-150
Abstract
Modern medical technologies raise the problems of the relationship between man and society, medical workers and patients. The ethical problems of medical technologies are nowhere so clearly defi ned as in the established practices of organ donation and transplantation. The project of a head transplant, widely represented in the media recently, raises a number of critical questions to the medical community. The article explores the ethical issues raised by the presentation in the media sphere the project of human head transplantation and risks for current transplant practice.
About the Author
O. N. Reznik
First Pavlov St. Petersburg Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation St. Petersbug State Research Institute for Emergency named after I. Dzhanelidze.
Russian Federation
Saint Petersburg.
Russian Federation
Saint Petersburg.
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Reznik O.N. The phenomenon of Canavero. Russian Journal of Transplantology and Artificial Organs. 2017;19(4):146-150. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.15825/1995-1191-2017-4-146-150
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