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Barker has been conducting research on non-life saving transplants, such as those for the hand or face, since 1994. He said all of his analysis has led him to believe that the benefits of a face transplant for the facially disfigured outweigh the negative aspects, regardless of whether or not the patient is already on the immunosuppressant drugs...
Bohdan Pomahac, the associate director of Brigham and Women’s burn unit and the head of the hospital’s face transplant program, told the Globe that he has performed dozens of facial surgeries using skin grafted from elsewhere on the patient’s body, leaving the patient still looking disfigured...
...psychiatrist from Massachusetts General Hospital. The psychiatrist would not be affiliated with the Brigham program and who would act on the behalf of the patient. Barker believes that another potential problem with the procedures is finding people who are both on immunosuppressants and are in need of a facial transplant...
...from the hospital and the search for patients underway, donors must also be found, since Massachusetts residents who sign up as organ donors on their driver’s license will not be automatically considered face donors. While donor and recipient must have the same blood type, a face transplant requires their race, gender and general age to also match in order to create as natural a look as possible for the patient...
...obsessed, narrative-driven Americans and the introspective, abstract-minded French. If the names had been switched, you couldn't tell who wrote what. Consider the book's first pairing: a ripped-from-the-headlines story by France's Marie Darrieussecq about a woman whose lover receives a full-face transplant; then an inside-out version by Rick Moody, who retells it from the man's point of view. "One day I woke to find that she was no longer attractive to me," he begins provocatively. Moody also sets up a finish worthy of Guy de Maupassant, the 19th century French...