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From: nemo@rochester.UUCP (Wolfe)
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Subject: Re: Baboon body on a Human!
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Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 08:44:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 13 08:44:08 1984
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> 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