From the first successful kidney transplant in 1954, modern organ transplantation has often been linked to the horrors of Frankenstein. While people have grown to accept kidney and liver transplants ...
In the mid-20th century, surgeons attempted something that sounded straight out of science fiction: transplanting a living head onto a new body. The operation technically worked—at least for a short ...
Head Transplants Are Weird (but Not Impossible) It sounds like pure science fiction—a full head transplant. But behind the headlines, ethical debates, and surgical horror stories lies a strange truth: ...