A Test of Morals: Surgical, Ethical, and Psychosocial Considerations in Human Head Transplantation

A Test of Morals compiles and examines the ethical questions that dog those who advocate for conducting this most radical of medical proposals in order to determine if society should move forward and allow head transplantation to occur.

L. Allen Furr is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Auburn University. He received his PhD from the Louisiana State University. His primary research area is the sociology of health and medicine, and his work has appeared in medical and nursing journals as well as in scholarly publications in sociology. In 2005, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach at Punjabi University in India where he often returns to lecture and conduct research.