Ahead of Our Time: Why Head Transplantation Is Ethically Unsupportable

American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 8 (4):206-210 (2017)
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Gifts and Obligations: The Living Donor as Storyteller.Paul Root Wolpe - 2012 - Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 2 (1):39-44.

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