Posted on 02/26/2015 6:18:05 AM PST by Red Badger
A surgeon says full-body transplants could become a reality in just two years.
Sergio Canavero, a doctor in Turin, Italy, has drawn up plans to graft a living person’s head on to a donor body and claims the procedures needed to carry out the operation are not far off.
Canavero hopes to assemble a team to explore the radical surgery in a project he is due to launch at a meeting for neurological surgeons in Maryland this June.
He has claimed for years that medical science has advanced to the point that a full body transplant is plausible, but the proposal has caused raised eyebrows, horror and profound disbelief in other surgeons.
The Italian doctor, who recently published a broad outline of how the surgery could be performed, told New Scientist magazine that he wanted to use body transplants to prolong the lives of people affected by terminal diseases.
“If society doesn’t want it, I won’t do it. But if people don’t want it, in the US or Europe, that doesn’t mean it won’t be done somewhere else,” he said. “I’m trying to go about this the right way, but before going to the moon, you want to make sure people will follow you.”
Putting aside the considerable technical issues involved in removing a living person’s head, grafting it to a dead body, reviving the reconstructed person and retraining their brain to use thousands of unfamiliar spinal cord nerves, the ethics are problematic.
The history of transplantation is full of cases where people hated their new appendages and had them removed. The psychological burden of emerging from anaesthetic with an entirely new body is firmly in uncharted territory. Another hitch is that medical ethics boards would almost certainly not approve experiments in primates to test whether the procedure works.
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Bubba’s found one for Hillary.
http://articles.latimes.com/1996-05-25/news/mn-8167_1_inca-mummy
Clinton joked during a political fund-raiser Wednesday that the 500-year-old frozen mummy, known as the Ice Princess, was “good-looking” and if he were single he might ask her out. “That mummy looks better than I do on my worst days,” he said.
“George Soros, here for eternity.”
I read a book about this, it was hitler’s head that had been frozen and tucked away in an Alpine glacier. Authorities got onto them by finding discarded heads from their experiments. Fortunately this didn’t end well for hitler either.
Aren’t we lucky to have all these Muslims infesting our homelands, so that in the future they can create lots of valuable donor bodies.
Dr. Hfuhruhurr
spelled just like it sounds.
Hillary could commandeer an Arnold Schwarzenegger body. Then she could really beat the S out of her poor husband, ramp up her abuse of her aides, — and achieve far greater popularity with some of “the women in her life.”
Neurosurgical miscegenation ?
Why not? A foreign head on a foreign body is apparently eligible
There is also a Dr. White in this country who has been performing experiments in this field.
Was that “Avatar”? Didn’t see it. I saw it in a bargain bin at WalMart recently. Is it worth viewing?
I read science fiction, watch westerns. As you might imagine, I don’t get out to theaters much anymore.
Just in time for Hillary and 2016.....
If you saw Kevin Costner’s movie ‘Dances With Wolves’ then just transplant the characters hundreds of years into the future, replace the Sioux with 12 foot tall blue aliens with tails, replace Costner’s character with a disabled Space Marine whose mind is transplanted into a cloned alien body, and the US Army Cavalry with corporate mercenaries seeking control of the aliens’ planet (Actually a moon of some faraway gas giant) for mining ‘Unobtainium’ minerals that defy gravity, and you basically have ‘AVATAR’...........AKA ‘Dances With Smurfs’......................Good movie if you suspend your logic and reason sections of your brain for three hours........... part animated computer graphics, part live action, also stars Sigourney Weaver..................
Umm no. We still aren’t good enough with spinal cord surgery for this to be even close.
Barrier-breaking drug may lead to spinal cord injury treatments
http://www.nih.gov/news/health/dec2014/ninds-03.htm
She needs a new head and body.........................
Well, ‘donor’ isn’t exactly the right word....................
Unless it doesn’t.
When contemplating projected major medical breakthroughs remember our life expectancy was “supposed to” top 150 in the 1990s. This guy is just looking for grant money.
Well, after all, there is a huge source of heads and bodies in the Middle East.
Oh, that’s just gross. How long could you stand the smell before ya got rid of it!?
“The Italian doctor, who recently published a broad outline of how the surgery could be performed, told New Scientist magazine that he wanted to use body transplants to prolong the lives of people affected by terminal diseases.”
If it works, you can bet that the trannies will clamor to jump to the head of the line for this procedure.
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