Karamjit Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Or so Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero saysEarlier this year, Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero announced to the world that he would soon be performing the first ever full head transplant on Valery Spiridonov, a 30-year-old computer scientist in Russia suffering with progressive muscular atrophy bound to eventually kill him. Sergio Canavero says a full head transplant is Valery Spiridonov's only chance to overcome his condition. Since his muscular atrophy is advancing at a rapid pace, having his head detached from his body and fitted onto a new one is the computer scientist's only shot at survival.Understandably, the medical community did not take lightly to the Italian surgeon's plans to chop off Valery Spiridonov's head and put it on a new body. They even started calling him Dr. Frankenstein.All the same, it looks like Sergio Canavero is determined not to let such remarks bring him down. He will perform the world's first ever full head transplant and he will do it no later than December 2017.At least there are some people who believe in himIt might be that most medical experts think him, well, insane, but Sergio Canavero does not stand completely alone in this endeavor. He's found a friend and supporter in Ren Xiaoping, a surgeon at China's Harbin Medical University who's volunteered to help him perform the transplant.This means the intervention will probably play out in China, an organizational detail Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero seems quite happy about.“Dr. Ren is the only person in the world able to lead this project,” he said in a recent interview. “With its outstanding organizational ability and group operational ability, China might be the best choice to carry out head transplants,” the surgeon went on to add, as cited by Science Alert.In case you anyone was wondering, Ren Xiaoping isn't a novice to the art of chopping up living creatures and then mixing and matching body parts. He's so far performed head transplants on about 1,000 mice and, apparently, cannot wait to graduate to operating on monkeys and people.From Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 can you say dr. QUACKinstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRiM Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Well technically it's not a "head" transplant, It's a "body" transplant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arachnoid Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 So whos the donor likely to be as they would need to have only head injury i.e. brain death and no degenerative organ failure of the body betwixt death and transplant plus its likely to have some side effects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ballistic Gelatin Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 [Girlfriend]: "Why in the world would anyone volunteer for a head transplant?"[Me]: "Well..."[Girlfriend]: "Why are looking at me like THAT?"[Me]: "Uh, I'm thinking, I'm thinking...."<sound of cast iron skillet 'interfacing' with skull>[Me]: Yeah, I guess I could use a new head...now." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rasbridge Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Perhaps some quadraplegics may seek this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flitox Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 get a new head and say goodbye to yourself!but as said a bit above, this is a body transplant. soon rich scumbags will be able to pay to the body of a young poor so they can enjoy their wealth a bit longer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PriSim Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 so we will call this thing nsane or insane :P ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
212eta Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Frankenstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sliuown Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Pretty damn excited how this turns out, wish him good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkyy Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 As long as they remember to put his head on a male body....or he'll just nag and nag and nag!!!!!! :D :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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