article_snippet.sent: Controversial Surgeon Sergio Canavero plans to perform the first ever human head transplant, claiming the country which hosts the operation will be a 'world leader' like the US when the operation put a man on the Moon .
article_snippet.sent: Valery Spiridonov wants to be the first person to undergo a head transplant despite the massive risks so Valery Spiridonov can have a shot at having a healthy body having suffered from Werdnig-Hoffman disease .
article_snippet.sent: attempts to perform the first head transplant.
article_snippet.sent: The country that hosts head transplant surgery for the first time will become a leader like this.'
article_snippet.sent: the risks appear huge but Controversial Surgeon Sergio Canavero insists the risks would take Controversial Surgeon Sergio Canavero less than an hour to put Spiridonov's head on the body of a donor body. '
article_snippet.sent: In 1970 Dr Robert White transplanted the head of one monkey onto the body of another, as shown in this diagram.
article_snippet.sent: If Mr Spiridonov's head were to be successfully transplanted Mr Spiridonov's jugular vein and spinal cords would have to be similarly fused with those of Mr Spiridonov's new donor body .
article_snippet.sent: The idea to transplant not only organs but the head has been studied for a long time even by Russian specialists. '
article_snippet.sent: But an actual transplantation of the human head was never conducted. '
article_snippet.sent: And for the last two years We've been talking The idea to transplant not only organs through and planning this operation. '