Making faces: a London surgeon's plan to transplant a human face has caused some alarm about the nature of identity - but hasn't science already shown that the self is a myth?

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Faces can now be harvested, preserved, and transplanted. The ethics of such new plastic surgery, donation and harvesting are analyzed by some of the doctors who are exploring such procedures.

Surgical Transplants, Cosmetic Surgery, Innovations, Surgery, Plastic, Plastic surgery, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., Organ transplantation, Tissue transplantation, Transplantation

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When doctors slam the door: under the current system, a doctor's reputation may depend on his or her willingness to turn away a dying man

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The ways in which physicians can legally deny treatment to seriously ill patients are described. The motives behind the denial of treatment, which lead to ethical questions, are examined.

Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Management dynamics, Legal/Government Regulation, Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Care Services, Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Medical & Health Services, Analysis, Laws, regulations and rules, Medical care, Practice, Physicians, Medical professions, Patient care, Medical ethics

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Sentenced to nature

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Wilderness therapy is a growing but controversial approach to modifying the behavior of unruly teenagers. The RedCliff Ascent program in Utah is described.

Health aspects, Care and treatment, Services, Juvenile offenders, Rehabilitation of juvenile offenders, Criminal rehabilitation, Problem children, Wilderness survival

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