Inside the mind of the man who wants to transplant human heads
Inside the mind of the man who wants to transplant human heads

    
        
                
                        
                                                            
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                                                            Neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero likens himself to Peter Parker and Victor Frankenstein, and controversially claims that a successful human head transplant is imminent
                            
                            
                            
                            
        

    
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                    Piero Martinello/Guardian News and Media
THERE’S a story doing the rounds about Sergio Canavero. One day, as a 9-year-old, he sought refuge from playground bullies in the pages of a superhero comic. “I myself have surgically rejoined severed neurolinkages,” declares Dr Strange, in the November 1976 issue of Marvel Team-Up. The brilliant but egotistical fictional surgeon continues: “The nerve endings have been fused – the healing process begun.” The young Canavero was captivated. Four decades on, he announced plans for the world’s first human head transplant…
If this story sounds a little too neat to be true, that’s because it probably is. The Italian neurosurgeon,…
                                    
            
    

    


                        
            
        
                            
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