RE: Has the World's First Human Head Transplant been Performed?... The chances of Sucess!
Well, I know they'd run into problem in terms of rejection and joining every nerves to the exact same way it was before. Now come the big elephant in the room, the rejection. Like every transplant there's always the risk the body would start fighting it as a foreign body which it was.
I've read extensively on this practice and I really do not see anything unethical here or if it should even be an issue. So is trying to live longer than "normal" an issue if such a transplant could make one live more?
I just feel that morals and ethics should not be the main reason that great research that may yield life changing result should be stopped. As long as it is not the Nazi-like butchering termed experiment performed on children in concentration camps, if it is a research on ways on how to make life better, then they should go for it.
Great article. Thanks for sharing.
Hello @greenrun,
Thank you for reading!
I totally agree with you on the points you've made.I also support anything that can improve the standard of living for people who are disabled.
Even though there is a bit of resistance in the ethical part, i don't think that is the main concern of the opposing scientists.
The Dr's who want to perform the surgery in December have just not proven reasonably that the procedure will work. Their procedure hasn't even worked on animals (as all the experimented animals eventually die). If they are not able to get it to work properly on animals, there's no way they'll be successful on a human.
The procedure cost about $13million,This is why a lot of scientists(including me) feel he should focus on getting a proven method of reconnecting spinal cord (as this has never been done before).
After all, if he isn't able to connect a severed spinal cord, the procedure cannot be considered a success.
He has scheduled the first procedure to happen next month. We'll all see the outcome of the procedure.
I think it might be possible to have a successful head transplant, once a solution is conferred to spinal cord reconnection.
Thanks again for reading!
@melanie00
If they haven't done their homework, then they should postpone the operation till all the research is done. It'd be amazing to see them reconnect a broken spinal cord. Then those who have theirs broken during accident stand a chance of walking again.
Yes dear, definitely!
Am really so interested in this procedure.
It'll indeed be the greatest milestone ever crossed in medicine, if it works.
Steem on!
Oh yeah. Thanks.