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Body transplants: who is the recipient and who is the donor?

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    Corpus
  • 04 March 2015
  • François-Xavier Putallaz
    • Lettres et des sciences humaines, UNIFR
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An Italian researcher promises to be able to graft a head onto a body within two years. This science-fiction project questions what, in the body and in the head, makes a human being.

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