New York Times - A New Face: A Bold Surgeon, an Untried Surgery:
"The procedure has been a theoretical possibility at least since 1999, when surgeons at the University of Louisville performed the nation's first hand transplant. That operation has been duplicated some two dozen times now, and the experience has given surgeons like Dr. Siemionow the courage - hubris, critics say - to think the unthinkable."
Via KurzweilAI.net
