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Paul Root Wolpe

Paul Root Wolpe is the Asa Griggs Candler professor of bioethics at Emory University, as well as a professor in the departments of medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, and sociology. He is editor and chief of the American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience. Twitter: @parowol

Latest articles by Paul Root Wolpe

The Big Idea
A human head transplant would be reckless and ghastly. It’s time to talk about it.A human head transplant would be reckless and ghastly. It’s time to talk about it.
The Big Idea

Two surgeons based in China say such surgery is “imminent.”

By Paul Root Wolpe