Transplant Medicine

Southern Medical Journal assembles world viewpoints on face transplantations

Published in Blood Weekly, May 18th, 2006

The first face transplant, performed by French surgeons in 2005, raised a host of difficult medical, ethical, and psychological issues. A special section in a recent issue of the Southern Medical Journal, official journal of the Southern Medical Association, presents a cross-section of opinion on face transplantation from international transplant experts.

The special section appears as part of the Spirituality/Medicine Interface Project, supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation to explore the creative interface between science and religion. It includes invited commentaries from surgeons at leading U.S. and European transplant centers.

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