End-stage organ failure is a key challenge for the medical community because of the ageing
population and the severe shortage of suitable donor organs available. Equally, injuries to …

Deepfake technology presents significant ethical challenges. The ability to produce realistic
looking and sounding video or audio files of people doing or saying things they did not do or …

Background. Despite early skepticism, the field of vascularized composite
allotransplantation (VCA) has demonstrated feasibility. The ethics of VCA have moved past …

Winner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological Association
Imagine yourself without a face—the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our …

Face transplants have attracted global media and public attention since the 1990s. The first
recipient, Isabelle Dinoire, found herself at the centre of a dramatic episode of surgical …

Transplantation continues to push the frontiers of medicine into domains that summon forth
troublesome ethical questions. Looming on the frontier today is human facial transplantation …

Three years ago, the Working Party on Facial Transplantation concluded that until there was
more information available about risks any potential patient would be exposed to, it would …

Each year an estimated 7‐million people in the USA need composite tissue reconstruction
because of surgical excision of tumors, accidents and congenital malformations. Limb …

Background: Face transplantation can provide improved quality of life to severely disfigured
individuals. The unique challenges of face transplantation prompted much ethical …

Background: The surgical techniques necessary to transplant a human face are well
established, and the early success of human hand transplants suggests that the …