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Extreme medicine: Head Transplants

Posted by Hemos on from the fun-with-scalpels dept.

Ry Jones writes "The Sunday Times is reporting that people like Bill Gates and Christopher Reed will soon be able to get head transplants. " Interesting idea, and as the article points out, it's been a goal for transplant science for the past couple decades. I'd like to have my head meet Arnold's body.

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  1. obSlashdot Post: by kuro5hin · · Score: 3
    1) Wow, imagine a whole roomful of heads transplanted onto one large body! It'd be a bitchin' Beowulf!

    2) Dood, wasn't this posted before?

    3) Hemos spelled Christopher Reeve's name wrong. He should learn to write english blah blah blah...

    4) The link doesn't work (oh wait, that one's been covered already)

    5) This surgical technique should be Open Sourced, so that anyone can do it, not just millionaires. If we could all open up the patient's neck and fix any problems ourselves, and submit patches back to the patient, this process would be faster, and more stable. But by having a few "elite" surgeons working alone in a "clean O.R." we will all end up with bloated necks that don't even let us move the rest of our body.

    6) [insert name of any old random unrelated thing] sucks.

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  2. blood-cooling system by crow · · Score: 3

    Oh wow. That blood-cooling system would probably let me overclock my brain!

  3. An even more exciting use for this technology by Shoeboy · · Score: 3

    Robert J White, an American neurosurgeon, said he had developed a blood-cooling system that meant a living head could be disconnected from its blood supply for up to an hour without ill-effect. forget head transplants. With this device, I might be able to make it through all the meetings my manager keeps scheduling.
    --Shoeboy