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• Anderson, John Ward. "French Doctors Defend Ethics of First Face Transplant." Washington Post, Dec. 3, 2005. http://www.washingtonpost
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• Associated Press. "Chinese Farmer Leaves Hospital After Receiving Face Transplant." Fox News.com, July 29, 2006. http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,206221,00.html
• ­Bernard, Ariane, and Craig S. Smith. "French Face-Transplant Patient
  Tells of her Ordeal." New York Times, Feb. 7, 2006.
• Butler, Peter E.M., Shehan Hettiaratchy, Alex Clarke. "Managing the
  Risks of Facial Transplantation." The Lancet, Aug. 12-18, 2006.
• Coghlan, Andy. "Face transplant may be only way to restore speech." New Scientist, Nov. 18, 2006.
• Concar, David. "The Boldest Cut." New Scientist, May 29-June 4, 2004.
• Davis, Robert. "Doctors will Transplant a Face -- But Whose?" USA Today, May 24, 2006. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-05-24-face-transplant_x.htm
• "Face Patient Wants 'Normal Life.'" Cnn.com, Feb. 6, 2006. http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/02/06/face.transplant/index.html
• Farndon. John. "From Laughing Gas to Face Transplants: Discovering Transplant Surgery." Heinemann, 2007.
• "French Doctors Perform Partial Face Transplant for 29-Year-Old Man."
  USA Today, Jan. 23, 2007. http://www.usatoday.com/news/
  health/2007-01-23-partial-face-transplant_x.htm
• "How a Face Transplant is Performed." Telegraph.co.uk, Nov. 26, 2006. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/main.jhtml?xml=/health/2006/10/30/
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• Jesitus, John. "Chinese Transplant Surgery Ups Technical Ante." Dermatology Times, June 2006.
• Jozefowicz, Chris. "Cutting Edge." Current Science, April 7, 2006.
• Lanzetta, Marco, and Jean-Michel Dubernard. "Hand Transplantation." Springer, 2007.
• Lock, Margaret. "Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death." University of California Press, 2001.
• McCullogh, Marie. "Anatomy of a Face Transplant." First Science. Dec. 1, 2006. http://www.firstscience.com/home/index2.php?option=com_
  content&task=view&id=2861&Itemid=71&pop=1
• Powell, Tia. "Face Transplant: Real and Imagined Ethical Challenges."­
  Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, spring 2006.
• Shelton, Wayne, and John Balint. "The Ethics of Organ Transplantation."
  JAI Press, 2001.
• "Surgery; Facial Transplantation May be a Safer Option, Study Shows."
  Drug Week, Sept. 14, 2007.
• Tilney, Nicholas L. "Transplant: From Myth to Reality." Yale University
  Press, 2003.
• "Woman has First Face Transplant." BBC News, Nov. 30, 2005. http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
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