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...Best Intentions provokes resonant questions. Is it right or possible to transplant an individual from one background into another? Are the efforts of schools like Exeter a patronizing way of superimposing bourgeois white values on inner-city blacks? Anson can hardly be faulted for not providing answers; they are all but absent in a nation still sadly rent by racial inequity. The loss of Edmund Perry, as portrayed in this often poignant book, makes the problem seem more intractable than ever...
Despite the heartening Parkinson's results reported in Rochester, doctors at the symposium were cautious. "In my mind, there is no question that the patients get better," said Dr. Rene Drucker-Colin, a leader of the transplant team at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, in Mexico City. "The real question is: For how long will they get better? Obviously, if the answer is six months, it would be less important to do this operation." Admitted Dr. George Allen, chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Vanderbilt, where twelve more operations are planned later this year: "This is still very much...
...unaffected by the immune system, accidentally set off an abnormal immune response that would destroy the graft? And even without viral intervention, would the foreign fetal cells be rejected? Moreover, surgeons will have to know precisely how much tissue from what stage of development should be used in each transplant. Taking the tissue too early, for example, might result in runaway cell growth that could wreak havoc in the brain...
...able to genetically engineer the cells we need -- add the genes for dopamine to cells, grow them in culture and use them in the brain. Whatever happens," he says, "it will be exciting." Notes New York University Neurologist Abraham Lieberman, who will assist in N.Y.U.'s first adrenal-cell transplant this week: "Five years ago, when you talked about brain transplantation, you were talking about Boris Karloff and Frankenstein. Today it's no longer science fiction...
...Will Sampson, 53, stolid, 6-ft. 7-in. full-blooded Creek Indian actor, painter and rodeo bull rider, best known for his 1975 debut role as the silent Chief Bromden in the film One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest; of kidney failure following a successful heart-and-lung transplant; in Houston...