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A growing international divide over cutting-edge medical research could worsen predatory practices, medical tourism and health inequality.
Valery Spiridonov, the man who would have the first head transplant.
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Italian surgeon, Sergio Canavero, claims that he is ready to perform the world’s first head transplant. But does the science stack up?
Don’t think the surgery worked.
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Science fiction can’t become science fact if neuroscientists are to carry out some daring surgery.
Is a person more than their brain?
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The science behind an Italian doctor’s plans to give a man a whole new body might be advanced, but philosophers have been asking what makes a person for centuries.