{"id":794,"date":"2002-12-28T17:51:54","date_gmt":"2002-12-29T01:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/12\/28\/794.html"},"modified":"2002-12-28T17:51:54","modified_gmt":"2002-12-29T01:51:54","slug":"new-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/12\/28\/new-face\/","title":{"rendered":"New face"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Courtesy of Bruce Sterling's blog at <cite>The Infinite Matrix,<\/cite> an article (from a month ago, so I don't know if things have changed in the mean time) about UK surgeons who are developing techniques for \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.co.uk\/uk_news\/story\/0,6903,846447,00.html\">full-face transplants<\/a> for patients who are seriously disfigured.\"  Sounds pretty cool to me; I would expect the biggest objections to be from law enforcement.  But the article talks about there being serious ethical considerations to be decided on before the doctors proceed.  Interesting.  I can also see friends and relatives of the (presumably deceased) donor being upset by knowing there's someone out there who now looks a lot like the donor; but I would expect that different face shapes and different expressions would result in the recipient not looking exactly like the donor, just similar.  I think I'd be fine with being such a donor, though I'm not sure; I'll have to think about it a little more.  And if I were a friend or relative of the donor, as long as I didn't have to see the recipient regularly, I think I'd view this as much like any other organ transplant: pleased that the body part is doing someone some good.<\/p>\n<p>But I may be wrong about how I'd react, and even if I'm right, I may be in a very small minority about this.  A plastic surgeon involved in the project, Peter Butler, \"has carried out a survey among 120 people&#8212;some of them nurses and doctors&#8212;asking if they would consider donating their faces in the event of death. .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;Not one said he would be willing to donate his facial features.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Bruce Sterling&#8217;s blog at The Infinite Matrix, an article (from a month ago, so I don&#8217;t know if&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}