If We Can Keep a Severed Head Alive...Discorporation and U.S. Patent 4,666,425

By Chet Fleming

RustyRiver offers fast daily shipping and 100% customer satisfaction GUARANTEED! Moderate wear to dust jacket. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942287029
• ISBN13: 9780942287028
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Polinym Press
• Length: 461 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wikipedia entry

Never read the book. Just wanted to let everyone know about the wikipedia entry, Head transplant, which discusses this entire issue, including the history of Head transplants. In 1998 Charles Krauthammer of Time magazine wrote of the potential medical future of head transplanting with cloning: At the University of Texas and at the University of Bath. During the past four years, one group created headless mice; the other, headless tadpoles. Why then create them?...Take the mouse-frog technology, apply it to humans, combine it with cloning, and you are become a god: with a single cell taken from, say, your finger, you produce a headless replica of yourself, a mutant twin, arguably lifeless, that becomes your own personal, precisely tissue-matched organ farm... Clone a headless double of yourself, 18-20 years before you die, and on your death bed, transplant your old head to the new cloned body. Immortality.

What a great book!

This is the book!! Everyone out there who has been looking for a way to keep pets and even loved ones around MUST read this. I admit, I had quite a bit of trouble keeping my brothers head alive, but my dog was pretty simple! I would suggest starting with something simple and working up to maybe a homeless person before you make a big goof like I did with my brother, Jean-Claude.You have GOT to try this!!

A book with a CAN DO attitude!

I was feeling really blue until a chanced across this book in my neighbor's bedroom. After only ten pages, I says "Tobias, here's a project worth your time.!" I loved this book and so will you (and your kids - it gave my nephew a great idea for his science fair). So if your intrests lay in severed heads, pets, or pets with severed heads, you'll wanna check this out.

Fascinating book

If you're willing to think hard about scary stuff that might actually happen in the future, this is a fascinating book. The author is an engineer, lawyer, and patent attorney. He doesn't advocate it, or oppose it. Instead, he lays out the facts in clear English, and does his best to analyze and explore the possible long-term social, legal, and ethical implications. The last third of the book gets into entirely different subjects, all focused on the impacts of science, engineering and technology on civilization and society. He's obviously very intelligent and well-read, and despite the bizarre title, he clearly wants what's best for society, and he wants researchers to think about what their work will do to society, before they do it in secret and then announce it. It's a challenging but fascinating book.

Because of title alone...

It's a MUST for every bookshelf