First Head Transplant, The
Original title: Stranger Than Fiction “The First Head Transplant”
Duration: 53’
Producer: N/A
Director: Paul Copeland
Participant: Philip Dampier
Company : ITN Factual
Scientific field: Human Sciences & Genetics
Year: 2006
Country: UK
The programme follows work done by scientists at the cutting edge of brain research during the period 1950 to 1970. It establishes the unique challenges presented by working with as complex, mysterious, and delicate an organ as the brain- and the ethical dilemmas that such work inevitably throws up.
By tracing the careers of both American and Russian researches, it shows how Cold War politics influenced researchers into the brain- and asks how to work from that period could again be relevant and influential today.
First Head Transplant, The
