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The surgeon actually changed to saying body transplant when he began to think about the surgery for humans--but called the monkey transplant a head transplant. Interesting rhetorical shift happening there; a kind of splitting hairs as he tried to get hospitals to agree to go ahead.

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Brandy L Schillace
Brandy L Schillace

Written by Brandy L Schillace

(skil-AH-chay) Author in #history, #science, & #medicine. Bylines: SciAm, Globe&Mail, WIRED, WSJ. EIC Medical Humanities. Host of Peculiar Book Club. she/her

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