@SylviaJ56 @RealGeorgeWebb1 The donor was not dead. There were no rules re "brain dead". At that time it was even juridical murder. "On December 3, 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard transplanted a still-beating heart into Louis Washkansky."https://t.co/UQkLocmv
@RheaKarys @adamlevick @CAMERAorg @CAMERAorgUK The ethics of organ transplantation were only questioned after 1985. El Kurd has made it clear that he flings any stone he can find at Israel, without regard to whether it is factual. (Adelaide Conference) ht
What were the ethical problems that troubled the leading transplanters? Albert R. Jonsen, PhD touches on some of them in this article from our March 2012 issue: https://t.co/7PqJUzF8js
The impossible dream of replacing a dead or dying vital organ with a living one became a reality on December 23, 1954, when Drs. Joseph Murray and John Merrill of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital transplanted a kidney from one monozygotic twin to another: https