Ethical Issues Posed by Face Transplants.

Ethical Issues Posed by Face Transplants. J Clin Ethics. 2019;30(4):303-313 Authors: Howe EG Abstract A face transplant is as challenging a surgical procedure as any patient can undergo. In this introduction I present the medical aspects of this surgery, the profound ethical issues it raises, and optimal interventions that clinicians can pursue to help these patients and their loved ones. I then discuss how to help other kinds of patients and loved ones who confront similar stresses. I end by presenting a goal that author Sharrona Pearl puts forth after she studied many face transplant patients. The efforts she urges should maximize our capacity to see face transplant patients-and anyone-as they are, as opposed to how they look. PMID: 31851621 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Clinical Ethics - Category: Medical Ethics Tags: J Clin Ethics Source Type: research