Spirituality/Medicine Interface Project
Face Transplantation: A Brave or Maverick Surgery?
Abstract
On November 27, 2005 two French surgeons and their teams dropped a bombshell: they performed a partial face transplant on a 38-year old female patient whose face had been mauled by a dog in May of that year. Worldwide several teams had been working on the various technical, scientific and ethical issues associated with face transplantation. Many experts and several scientific organizations in a number of countries had recommended caution and restraint and actually discouraged face transplantation at the present time.This content is limited to qualifying members.
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