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	Whole-body transplant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Whole-body transplant is similar in some ways to the idea of downloading consciousness promoted by Marvin Minsky and others with a mechanistic view of natural intelligence and an optimistic outlook regarding artificial intelligence.
		However, while the 'downloaders' see the ultimate receptacle of the human brain as a repairable manufactured body made by robotics, the 'transplanters' see the ultimate receptable as a new body optimized for that brain by genetics and maybe proteomics.
		It has been pointed out that the age of a body that a brain could be transplanted into should be sufficient - the adult sized brain could only fit into the skull of a body post 9-12 years old as that is when the head reaches adult size.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whole-body_transplant (343 words)

	head-transplant.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The grafted head, which had been transplanted from an embryo, developed normally with two anatomically perfect eyes and a snapping set of jaws.
		The transplanted head could actually grab onto a worm, but couldn't swallow it because it lacked the rest of its feeding equipment.
		In most, the embryonic head, while it took, sustained major damage before the eye socket developed; most results were nothing like the specimen in the picture, to say the least.
	www.indiana.edu /~pietsch/head-transplant.html (335 words)

	Head transplant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A head transplant, is a surgical operation involving the replacement of an organism's head with a replacement head.
		Robert White of Case Western Reserve University, who in 1984 announced that he felt his techniques were suitably developed to work on humans.
		Since the technology required to reattach a severed spinal cord has not yet been developed, the subject of a head transplant would be a quadriplegic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Head_transplant (207 words)

	Head transplant - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		JACHO head urges US hospitals to join efforts to increase donation, removal of financial disincentives by government.(Joint Commission on the Accreditation...
		An Extremely Urgent Transplantation?(ethical aspects of moving a person with a psychological need for a kidney transplantation to the head of the urgency...
		Hopkin's Zerhouni named to head NIH as Bush administration finally moves to fill health/medical leadership posts.(Elias Zerhouni is nominated for director...
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /head_transplant.htm (310 words)

	MSN Encarta - Head Trip: Are Noggin Transplants Next?
		The motive for acquiring a trophy head was simple: The spirit of the victim was believed to serve the tribe's relatives in the world of the dead.
		The groundwork for this was laid in 1908, when the American physiologist and pharmacologist Charles C. Guthrie grafted the head of a dog onto the neck of a larger mutt, creating a two-brained beast, so to speak.
		The image of a severed human head, suspended in midair and attached to a series of life support machines, so horrified Chet Fleming that he went out and obtained a U.S. patent for equipment to replicate such a feat.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/Columns/?Article=severedheads (1060 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The technique for transplanting heads was proven in principle with small mammals in the early 1990s.
		Transplanting their head to a new body could, however, give them the chance of a normal lifespan.
		Most of the subsequent demand for head transplants would, however, almost certainly come from a group presenting far greater ethical problems - elderly or dying millionaires with enough money to pay for the operation and the years of aftercare.
	www.softlab.ntua.gr /~sivann/pub/funnypics/head-transplants.txt (744 words)

	Human Head Transplant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		late in the century the human head transplant might be as common as a kidney transplant is now...
		The next milestone would have been human head transplant surgery, performed on people whose brains were...
		White, even a human head transplant (perhaps better referred to as a body transplant) may be possible...
	www.musicbyartist.com /Human-Head-Transplant-.html (600 words)

	Human Head Transplants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Head transplants on animals have been attempted since 1908, but it was not until 1970 that Robert White first successfully transplanted the head of a rhesus monkey.
		Human heads would be easier, he says, because surgeons are more used to dealing with humans and the blood vessels and tissues are much larger.
		The technology needed for cooling tissues to enable head transplantation is available and the procedure is already established.
	healthyliving.allinfo-about.com /head.html (489 words)

	Current Science: Getting a head: who will volunteer for the first head transplant? The technique is already here (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Head transplants require severing the spinal cord, unavoidably paralyzing patients from the neck down.
		White says the first candidate for a human head transplant operation may be a quadriplegic, a person who is paralyzed from the neck down.
		If the head of an ailing quadriplegic were transplanted onto the body of a recently deceased donor, the quadriplegic would still be paralyzed but would have a new, healthy set of organs.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BFU/is_7_90/ai_n8589469 (958 words)

	ipedia.com: Organ transplant Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An organ transplant is the transplantation of an organ from one body to another, for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor.
		That term is also used for a special form of liver transplant, in which the recipient suffers from familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy causing the liver to produce a (very slow) poison; their liver can be transplanted into an older patient who is likely to die from other causes before a problem arises.
		The last record transplant operation of eight organs, the liver, stomach, pancreas, small and large intestine, spleen, and two kidneys, was performed in the USA in March 2004.
	www.ipedia.com /organ_transplant.html (1055 words)

	Latest Breaking Health News & Information: Applesforhealth.com
		Head transplants are not as far-fetched as they sound, nor is the research new.
		Although attached to the living body of another rhesus monkey the transplanted head, once the anesthesia wore off, was alert and aggressive in its expressions.
		A: The one thing that came out of this, in addition to simply proving the feasibility of whole brain and head transplants, was the fact that that the whole brain could be preserved with its intact circulatory infrastructure apart from the body long enough for it to be transplanted onto a second body.
	www.applesforhealth.com /OrganDonation/braintp2.html (1656 words)

	Connecticut Hair and Transplant Group
		This hair is programmed at birth differently than the top of your head and is not affected with DHT so when we take this hair from the back and sides and transplant it in an area on top where you want your hair, it will grow and grow for the rest of your life.
		The reason for that is we are not transplanting the hair (per-say) we are transplanting the hair papilla and hair follicle which is the factory that produces hair constantly when it is fed the nutrition which is carried to it by the blood.
		The donor area in back of the head is shared and a strip of skin which houses the hair papilla and follicle is taken - a strip of about a 1/2" in width and the length depends on the size of the session performed.
	www.chtg.com /questions.html (1256 words)

	Wired 8.01: A Little off the Top
		It's theoretically possible: By late in the century the human head transplant might be as common as a kidney transplant is now.
		He estimates that a head transplant would cost about $2 million; all he needs are the funds and a patient willing to end up, as he delicately puts it, "as a head on a pillow."
		One person who doubts head transplants are likely or desirable is Chet Fleming (not his real name), a practicing patent attorney who once obtained a head-transplant-related patent (since declared invalid) that he hoped to use to slow down research in this area.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/8.01/transplants.html (1033 words)

	body transplant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		No such transplants have been performed on humans (as of March 2003), but there have been many successful head transplants performed on monkeys by Dr.
		Robert White of Case Western University, who in 1984 announced that he felt his techniques were suitably developed to work on humans.
		This technique has been proposed as possibly useful for people who are already quadruplegics, and who are suffering from widespread organ failures which would otherwise require many different and difficult transplant surgeries.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Body_transplant.html (215 words)

	Encyclopedia: Head transplant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		No such transplants have yet been performed on humans, but there have been many successful head transplants performed on monkeys by Dr.
		Robert J. White (born 1925) is a United States surgeon, best known for his successful head transplants on monkeys.
		Although mr.perkins a proffessorfromohio universityhasattemptedto re-attatch a spinalcord he has failedboth timesand eachtimekillingthe patient An organ transplant is the transplantation of a whole or partial organ from one body to another, for the purpose of replacing the recipients damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Head-transplant (429 words)

	BBC News \| HEALTH \| Frankenstein fears after head transplant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The arguments against head and brain transplants were outlined by Dr Stephen Rose, director of brain and behavioural research at the Open University.
		"It's entirely misleading to suggest that a head transplant or a brain transplant is actually really still connected in anything except in terms of blood stream to the body to which it has been transplanted.
		The issue of who someone who had received a head transplant would "be" is extremely complicated, said Professor Rose.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/1263758.stm (584 words)

	Organ Transplant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		China is drafting a law on organ transplant to regulate the growing operation, a senior health official said in Changsha Sunday.
		Most pancreas transplants are performed for diabetes mellitus with chronic renal failure due to diabetic nephropathy and are transplanted together with a kidney.
		The head surgeon, Bruce Reitz, credited the patient's recovery to cyclosporine-A. The last record transplant operation of eight organs, the liver, stomach, pancreas, small and large intestine, spleen, and two kidneys, was performed in the USA in March 2004.
	www.wikiverse.org /organ-transplant (1076 words)

	Transplant Week -- Your Online Transplant Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Surgeon Leaves Sicilian Transplant Program to Return to U.S. An Italian-born liver transplant surgeon who went back to his native country in 1999 to head a transplant center in Palermo has returned to the United States, expressing frustration over the logistical and bureaucratic obstacles he encountered in Sicily.
		Since it was launched as the only transplant program in Italy south of Rome, surgeons have performed more than 120 liver and kidney transplants.
		Since Marino's resignation, Dr. John Fung, chief of transplant surgery at UPMC who had been traveling to Palermo at about monthly intervals, has assumed the role of interim transplant director of ISMETT pending recruitment of a fulltime successor.
	www.transplantweek.org /members/Vol4/News/040301.htm (360 words)

	The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant/The Thing With Two Heads
		Roger is obsessed with experiments dealing in animal head transplants, which have been successful on the various snakes and rabbits in his lab, so he now has is sites on human beings.
		Kirshner is able to remove the gorilla's original head, allowing the other head to fully function with the new body, and he now wants to put his head onto a healthy human.
		After the transplant is completed, Kirshner wakes up to the surprise of his life ("Is this some kind of a joke?"), but is able to except it, knowing his head can later be transplanted onto a more fitting body (white).
	www.dvddrive-in.com /reviews/i-m/incredibletwoheads7172.htm (1229 words)

	► » 20th century: Organ transplant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Organs that can currently be transplanted include: * Liver * Kidney * Lung * Heart * Corneas * Skin (a skin graft) * Blood vessels The heart and lungs are sometimes transplanted together, in a heart-lung transplant.
		Organ transplants that can not be performed today include * Head transplant or Whole-body transplant * cardia or Lower Esophageal Sphincter(LES) for achalasia.
		History Successful inter-human transplants have a relatively long history, the operative skills were present long before the necessities for post-operative survival were discovered.
	www.best-digital-photos.com /20th_century/Organ_transplantation.shtml (848 words)

	The Thing With 2 Heads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		You see, the transplanted head must live with the other head for about 4 weeks, and then the original head can be safely removed.
		The plot has excuses like "his head transplant technique was not perfected" and " He was going to die if Dr. Desmond didn't act immediately" but Kirshner KNEW he was dying or at least very ill for some time.
		Yeah, it was a horrible thing to do, grafting another head to his body, but he was sentenced to death and told that he wouldn't survive the experiment if he volunteered for it.
	www.badmovieplanet.com /inferno/archives/2heads.html (2023 words)

	Wired 8.01: A Little off the Top
		It requires an operating room twice the normal width, because a head transplant is really two operations in one.
		It's not like a heart or liver transplant: You can't pack a head in an ice-filled picnic cooler and load it on a helicopter.
		Once the head is severed, the clock starts ticking - fast - so the donor and recipient have to be right there on their own slabs.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/8.01/transplants_pr.html (1317 words)

	ISB Head work on a 12 Valve? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The head bolt patterns between the ISB and the B are the same.
		On ISBs, the fuel lines attach to the "edge" of the head, and a high pressure fuel connector takes the fuel from the "edge" in to the center where the injector is.
		You would also have to change pistons, since the piston bowls are offset in the B (due to the offset, angled injectors), but the bores are the same, so ISB pistons would fit w/o problems.
	dodgeram.org /tech/dsl/FAQ/Isb_head_swap.htm (277 words)

	Twincam Mini - Original BMW K head transplant
		However when the head is mounted in a horizontal fashion provisions have to be made for proper oil drainage.
		There were several additional holes that had to be plugged in the head but for the most part it was largely unmodified and probably could be reinstalled on a K bike with very little work.
		The BMW head did not have any provision for an oil filler cap so I brazed a section of pipe onto a fuel pump blanking plate and brought that out top with a plumbing supply dishwasher downspout.
	www.users.qwest.net /%7Eshuko (1730 words)

	The Head - $3.74 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		THE HEAD is the story of a power-mad scientist whose decapitated head is kept alive in a lab by the deranged Doctor Ood, thanks to the mysterious `Serum Z'.
		The head is one horror film that you shouldn't pass up.the surrealistic atmosphere an haunting sound track only add to the horror.the film starts with the strange Dr.Ood,not only strange but quite mad.he applies for the job of assistant to dr. prof.
		One part that seemed funny to me was when he transplanted the hunchback nurse's head onto the stripper's body, he must have also installed some breast implants, as the rack on the stripper's body (now with the nurse's head) was greatly increased.
	dvd.dvd-eworld.com /284930/goodsB00008G8WN.html (1311 words)

	EXN.ca \| Discovery
		A head transplant wouldn't be for someone who may want a new brain, but for people who desire new, healthy bodies.
		Instead of using the body's organs separately for individual organ transplants among many people, the whole body could be used for one person.
		But, with news of a successful hand transplant earlier this year in January, White thinks a human 'head transplant' will be done within the next 10 years.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/1999/09/09/52.asp (728 words)

	Environmentalists are the new enemies of science
		'Transplanting a uterus from a woman to a man is, I suppose, theoretically possible, providing one could arrange the appropriate plumbing,' says Professor Roger Gosden, a specialist in reproductive medicine.
		Although the transplanted head cannot control its new body, the head itself appears to be working normally.
		Robert White is now thinking of defying his critics and performing a head transplant or a body transplant on a human, even though he will have to leave America to do this.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /aginatur/prog3.htm (4572 words)

	Head transplant (Steve Harris, M.D.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The experiment was successful in that the head woke up, looked around by moving it's eyes, and did indeed bite off the end of one researcher's finger, when the finger was stuck into its mouth.
		In a human, you might be able to save a quadruplegic like Christopher Reeves, who can't breathe for himself, by doing a transplant of the head to another body (suppose Reeves got cancer which hadn't spread to his head).
		The head of the donor body was detached, and out of luck.
	yarchive.net /med/head_transplant.html (542 words)

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