Can you transplant a head to another body? - Max G. Levy
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In 1970, neurosurgeon Robert White and his team carted two monkeys into an operating room to conduct an ambitious experiment. The objective was to connect the head of Monkey A to the body of Monkey B, in what he considered a whole-body transplant, with the ultimate goal of one day performing this surgery on humans. Is such a feat even medically possible? And is it ethical? Max G. Levy investigates
If you transplant a person’s head to another body, what do you think will happen to their consciousness and “soul”?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Max G. Levy
- Director Anton Bogaty
- Narrator Addison Anderson
- Composer Greg Chudzik, Cem Misirlioglu
- Sound Designer Cem Misirlioglu
- Produced by Gerta Xhelo, Abdallah Ewis
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Editorial Producer Shannon Odell
- Fact-Checker Charles Wallace
