Art Caplan discusses the ethics of transplanting for quality of life, not for functional restoration.
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Some of you know that NYU is among the few institutions that have attempted face transplantation. There are other institutions that have also attempted hand transplants, arm transplants, and penile transplants. because they were going to get the whole face transplant. The drugs that can be harmful for kidney function take a toll on the recipient of a heart, liver, kidney, face, or hand. They're going to be administered anyway.
If you hope that you could restore vision by the transplant, I think we've got much more animal work to do because we don't know, really, that the optic nerve would regenerate as part of this transplant and permit signals to go to the brain. We're not even sure whether a new eye from a different person would send signals to the brain, even if there were signals, that could be interpreted by the recipient's brain properly as vision.
Again, a risk that has to be taken into account is if you operate on an eye that doesn't see in a person who has vision in one eye or you do a transplant, are you risking blindness because of this interaction between both eyes, where different chemicals and substances can go from the eye that was operated on over to the healthier eye and wreak havoc?
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