{"id":44735,"date":"2014-06-23T15:30:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T15:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/vancouver_sun_canadian_surgeons_debate_ethics_of_face_transplants_for_child\/"},"modified":"2014-06-23T15:30:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T15:30:40","slug":"vancouver_sun_canadian_surgeons_debate_ethics_of_face_transplants_for_child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44735","title":{"rendered":"(Vancouver Sun) Canadian surgeons debate ethics of face transplants for children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian surgeons are confident they could soon perform what has never before been attempted anywhere in the world \u201d\u201d face transplants in children.<\/p>\n<p>The highly complex surgeries, which have so far only been performed in adults, are now \u201ctechnically feasible\u201d\u009d in children and could be life transforming for those with devastating facial deformities and disfigurements for whom no other reconstructive alternatives exist, a team from Toronto\u2019s Hospital for Sick Children reports in the journal, Plastic Surgery.<\/p>\n<p>But the risky surgeries are fraught with profound ethical and moral challenges, including issues surrounding personal identity, informed consent and the possibility of \u201cfuture resentment,\u201d\u009d the team writes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/health\/Canadian+surgeons+debate+ethics+face+transplants+children\/9964641\/story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian surgeons are confident they could soon perform what has never before been attempted anywhere in the world \u201d\u201d face transplants in children. The highly complex surgeries, which have so far only been performed in adults, are now \u201ctechnically feasible\u201d\u009d<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44735\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,175,207,101,168,104,129,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-canada","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-psychology","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}