Volume 27, Number 16 · October 23, 1980
Comet With a Cold
By P.B. Medawar
Diseases from Space
by Fred Hoyle, by Chandra Wickramasinghe
Harper and Row, 196 pp., $11.95
I was once visited by a science writer who told me in a state of some excitement of a notion to which he attached great importance: suppose a brain to be transplanted from one person to another; would not the new identity of the recipient of the graft raise perplexing, disturbing, and very likely insoluble legal and personal problems?
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