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Doctor’s plan for full-body transplants raises doubts even in daring China

By The New York Times  
   June 13, 2016

The plan: Remove two heads from two bodies, connect the blood vessels of the body of the deceased donor and the recipient head, insert a metal plate to stabilize the new neck, bathe the spinal cord nerve endings in a gluelike substance to aid regrowth and finally sew up the skin. Whether or not he performs the operation, leading medical experts have condemned the plan.

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