http://joeshaw.org/2005/12/05/361 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:01:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://joeshaw.org/2005/12/05/361/comment-page-1#comment-55 Decoding Terms » Face On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:30:43 +0000 http://joeshaw.org/2005/12/05/361#comment-55 [...] Joe Shaw has been talking about the recent first face transplant operation. As he notes, the technology and skill to perform such an operation has been around for a while, but it has not been done before due to “ethical issues.” Unfortunately, the CNN article he links to has little information on what these issues are, which makes things somewhat confusing. The BBC has better coverage of this, and the issues were discussed in the Slashdot comments. Basically, it seems to come down to three major issues: [...] [...] Joe Shaw has been talking about the recent first face transplant operation. As he notes, the technology and skill to perform such an operation has been around for a while, but it has not been done before due to “ethical issues.” Unfortunately, the CNN article he links to has little information on what these issues are, which makes things somewhat confusing. The BBC has better coverage of this, and the issues were discussed in the Slashdot comments. Basically, it seems to come down to three major issues: [...]

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