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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[w:Vladimir Demikhov|Vladimir Demikhov]], a Soviet-era Russian scientist, is known for (among other accomplishments) his [https://web.archive.org/web/20130827165645/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,891156,00.html dog head transplant experiments] in the 1950s.
* Inspired by Demikhov, [[w:Robert J. White|Dr. Robert White]] successfully transplanted the head of one monkey onto the body of another in 1970; although paralyzed from the neck down because of the transplant, the resulting hybrid survived nine days before immune rejection killed it. While it lived, though, the monkey could still hear, smell, taste, eat and follow objects with its eyes. During the 1990s, White planned to perform the same operation on humans and practiced on corpses at a mortuary. It was hoped he could do head transplant surgery on physicist [[Stephen Hawking]] and actor [[Christopher Reeve]]. Although his work has been dismissed as "barbaric", it has led to serious discussion of the feasibility of spinal cord reconstruction and cephalo-spinal linkage in humans as recently as 2014.
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