Wiggins and his colleagues (2004) are to be commended for their willingness to raise the
question of the ethics of undertaking the world's first face transplant prior to initiating the …

In 1998, the year of the first hand transplant, Dr. John Barker (director of plastic surgery
research and member of the hand transplant team at the University of Louisville, Kentucky) …

The miraculous transplantation of a leg by the third-century saints Cosmas and Damian [1]
became a medical reality in 1998 with the first successful hand transplant in France. In 2005 …

The Louisville composite tissue transplant team deserves plaudits for its transparent
approach to the highly charged topic of face transplants. They are fully aware of the …

An Ethical Inquiry Page 1 TH E P R E SID ENT’SCOUNCILON B IO E T H IC S the President’s
Council on Bioethics Washington, DC July 2002 Human Cloning and Human Dignity An Ethical …

Every part of the body has been celebrated in some poetic phrase as the true seat of the
soul. Despite the literary primacy of the heart, I suspect that many people would put the face …

If asked to read Wiggins et al.'s “On the Ethics of Facial Transplantation Research”(2004)
with the aim of responding to it, I suspect that for most people the central question would …

On the Ethics of Facial Transplantation Research time and reached the same conclusion as
Herndon.“Without more substantive evidence of an expectation for good outcome,” said …

Few avenues of scientific inquiry raise more thorny ethical questions than the cloning of
human beings, a radical way to control our DNA. In August 2001, in conjunction with his …

WHEN DR. LEON KASS ACCEPTED the appointment as chair of the Presi-dent's Council on
Bioethics, he recognized that President Bush and most members of Congress had probably …