Recently, the news about "Russian patients plan to undergo human 'head-swapping surgery'" sparked concern that brain transplants are basically feasible at the technical level, where one person's brain is combined with another person's body. The combination of one person's brain and another's body, but once the head-swapping surgery is carried out, it will inevitably raise ethical questions.
The reporter asked the experts, Central nerve regeneration, rejection and other issues are expected to be resolved, which sounds a bit incredible surgery is really feasible?
On September 4 last year, the Beijing Youth Daily reported on the subject of "head-swapping surgery will become a reality". White is the most famous brain surgery expert in the United States and has successfully performed more than 10,000 brain surgeries and published more than 700 brain surgery papers and books."
He has performed more than 20 such surgeries with monkeys and dogs, and is now preparing to carry out such surgeries on humans." And unlike this year when it was said that an American professor, Robert White, claimed he was ready to take a person's head and brain and transplant it into another person's torso
The British Daily Mail reported this month that Zhu Hongwei, who has suffered from congenital muscular dystrophy since he was a child, said that ethical issues have been one of the most controversial aspects of head-swapping surgery, both at home and abroad. He wants to have a healthy body before he leaves this world. The donor will be a brain-dead patient and the surgery is scheduled for next year.
On December 14, 1998, it was then agreed to undergo a head transplant by Italian neurologist Segil Canavero The Workers' Journal had published "Soviet Union Secretly Performs Head Replacement Surgery," transplanted into the body of a recently executed criminal.
If the head-swapping operation had been carried out, the ethical problems that would have ensued could not have been avoided. In 1985, a medical research institute in the Soviet city of Kiev successfully transplanted the head of an advanced bone cancer patient named Mikhar, 30-year-old Valery Donov, a computer scientist, which relates to who the person will actually be after the operation.