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What a 1970 experiment reveals about the possibility and perils of ‘head transplants’ | Aeon Videos

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US neurosurgeon Robert J White proposed executing a whole body transplant’ on a rhesus monkey in the late 1960s .

By performing a complex surgery that involved removing one monkey’s head and attaching it to another's body, White believed he might unlock a method to potentially save human lives in the future.

It was a medical experiment widely considered to be controversial, even in an era before the animal rights movement had reached mainstream.

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English

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