Posted
Friday, December 19, 2008 9:07 AM
| By
William Saletan
Don't look now, but a woman in Ohio has a new face. And the world has a new kind of medicine: socially necessary surgery.
The operation, announced yesterday at the Cleveland Clinic, was a face transplant from a corpse. ... Doctors replaced 77 square inches of the patient's face, from her eyelids to her chin.