There are ethical considerations based on the objections of animal rights activists. I don't discount them, but I'm not well-versed in their terminology.
The ethical considerations as extended to humans are most obvious to me. Even if such a thing as a head transplant were possible, which is extremely unlikely given the complexity of reattaching a severed spinal cord, what are the criteria for body donors?
Here is the ethically challenging scenario: You have two people,
- one with a paralyzed body but a healthy head
- the other with a healthy body and a healthy head.
