Sergio Canavero is an Italian neuroscientist who is planning to be the first ever scientist to perform a human head transplant. The procedure will include a spinal cord fusion. Canavero has worked with or learned from previous neurosurgeons such as Dr. Robert White who successfully transferred a monkey head. Although this transplant has not been performed yet, it can benefit other medical fields research of upcoming transplants to come. Valery Spiridonov, the volunteer, suffers from a rare disease called Werdnig-Hoffman disease which causes weakness and leads to muscle atrophy. Currently, Spiridonov has a normal sized human head with a weakened child-like body. The idea of replacing an entire human head was unthinkable in the past but Sergio
Louis, Missouri, May 1908 where she introduces a very renowned man who works in organ transplants. Named Charles Guthrie, along with his partner Alexis Carrel who would later win a Nobel Prize. She uses humor and scientific tone/ diction in addition to imagery to describe the procedures that these two men conducted to further advance knowledge of head transplants. To illustrate this, Roach says. “The arteries were grafted together such that the blood of the intact dog flowed through the head of the decapitated dog and then back into the intact dog's neck”(207).
There were many European Explorers after Columbus “discovered” it. One important explorer to know and learn about is Francisco Vasquez de Coronado. He attempted to explore major things and he became well known after his expedition to the New World.
Mary Roach starts her research of human cadavers by going to a facial anatomy and face-lift refresher course. There, Roach learns that surgeons survive by modifying human remains. The author sees the distinct benefit of learning surgical methods using cadavers. Cadavers feel no agony and cannot die due to problems, cadavers offer immediate benefits for surgical study. Roach sees this as a great upgrade over how the surgery was once taught to live patients without the advantage of anesthesia.
Sergio Gonzalez moved from Mexico to Nova Scotia five years ago and got a job at a McDonald’s restaurant. Since then, he’s worked his way up to manager and handles all aspects of the business, from making burgers to managing inventory to scheduling employees.
In the beginning, Antonio is only six years old. He is at the center of a conflict between the Márez values of his father and the Luna beliefs of his mother. His father would love for him to become a cowboy, but his mother desperately wants him to become a priest. “ Once I had told my mother about my dreams, and she said they were visions from God and she was happy, because her own dream was that I should grow up an become a priest.” (4) All throughout the book he works as a helper to Ultima. “ We walked together in the llano and along the river banks to gather herbs and roots for her medicines.” (15) He takes in her wisdom concerning life and all of the things she does. As the story goes on, Antonio is torn between sin and morality and the truth about religion. “... I learned from her that there was a beauty in the time of day and in the time of night, and that there was peace in the river and in the hills.” (15) Eventually, he decides to find his own path in life and create his own religious faith.
Recently, the low numbers of human donor organs and short term mechanical “organ” replacements have given cause for
Dr. Sergio Canavero is neurosurgeon that thinks outside the box. Many call him crazy for trying to perform a head transplant, but we have to take risks in order to grow in the medical field. Man used to think hear transplants and liver transplant weren’t possible, but we took risk just like Dr. Sergio Canavero is today. Dr. Sergio Canavero of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group in Italy, Spoke on his plans to perform the first ever human head transplant. Dr. Canaveros has chosen Valery Spiridonov, a 30 year old computer scientist from Vladimir, Russia. Spiridonav has Werdning Hoffmen disease a rare genetic conditions that affects your muscle movement. Spirdonov says “I can hardly control my body now. I need help every day, every minute” (Spiridonov). When asked about if he was scared Spiridonov replied “I’m not worried about anything. Someone needs to be first. Someone needs to go further where no one has gone before” (Spiridonov)
Thesis: I believe that…whole brain death is the best definition of death suitable for the use of organ transplantation.
The medical industry had been achieving more in the stage of medical advancements, though they are still in the early phase. Artificial organs have been one of those achievements. Although they have achieved such, artificial organs are not perfect. Most doctors as well as patients would prefer to replace a dying organ with a compatible human organ, rather than with an artificial or animal organ. Yet due to a there being less organs donated than recipients, artificial and animal organs are becoming more common in transplants. Most of this issue is because people are unaware of how organ donation works, the organs that can be donated, how many people are in need, and the advancements that have happened in the field. Organ donation saves hundreds of lives every year, but many lives are recklessly lost due to a shortage of organ donors.
The medical practice of organ transplantation has grown by leaps and bounds over the last 50 years. Each year the medical profession takes more risk with decisions regarding transplants, how to allocate for organs, and most recently conducting transplants on children with adult organs. “An organ transplantation is a surgical operation where a failing or damaged organ in the human body is removed and replaced with a new one” (Caplan, 2009). Not all organs can be transplanted. The term “organ transplant” typically refers to transplants of solid organs: heart, kidneys, liver, pancreas, and intestines. There are two ways of receiving an organ transplant: from a living human or an organ from a
Partnership working in the context of safeguarding refers to the joint work made by professionals and agencies with different expertise and roles to improve their safeguarding capability.
Physicians today are faced with a growing list of patients awaiting transplants for organs that have failed, but there are not enough donors to meet these needs. Countries all over the world have a “human organ shortage” and the waiting lists for organ transplants only seem to grow longer (Melo 427). In the United States 62,000 patients needed a kidney, liver, or pancreatic transplant in the year 2001. Xenotransplantation, which refers to the transplantation of organs, cells, or tissues from animal species into human beings, has been heralded as a promising technology that will help us save more lives and lessen the dire shortage of transplantable organs.
D. Thesis - Organ donation and Transplants are the most remarkable success stories in the history of medicine. They give hope to
Supporting detail 1: With the advent of organ transplantation more than thirty years ago, the human body has quickly created a demand for replacement parts.
Every day I wake up knowing I’m going to have to fight the same war within myself that I do everyday. A war that isn’t visible to the eye, nevertheless a war I never feel I will be free from. It is a humiliating feeling to be fearful of your mind as if you are its prisoner. There are days where I will do anything just to survive. Anxiety has become a sickness that I can’t shake. The way I was brought up plays a significant role in developing a personality derived from perfectionism as well as fearing any sort of failure, due to developing an anxiety disorder. Anxiety has clouded my sense of “who I am,” as well as, affected me physically and cognitively.