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  1. An Eye for an Eye?: Problematic Risk–Benefit Trade-Offs in Whole Eye Transplantation.Carrie Thiessen, Bethany Erb & Eric Weinlander - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics 24 (5):75-79.
    Transplantation is a field of perpetual innovation. In the last 15 years, novel surgical interventions include uterine, tracheal, hand, face, and penile allotransplantation, as well as cardiac xeno...
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  • Putting a Face on WET Recipients.Rosemarie Garland-Thomson - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics 24 (5):81-85.
    I have at least four close friends who seem to be ideal qualified recipients of WET. My friends have a variety of eyes: some prosthetic, some wandering, some misaligned, some absent, some shrouded...
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  • The Ethical Challenges of Whole-Eye Transplantation: Is Recipient Informed Consent Enough?Peter Angelos - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics 24 (5):74-75.
    Laspro et al. (2024) have articulated a number of important considerations in order for the first-in-human whole-eye transplant (WET) to be an ethically acceptable endeavor. These authors have clea...
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  • Disability Bioethics, Social Inclusion, and Whole-Eye Transplantation.Adam Cureton & Kevin Todd Mintz - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics 24 (5):85-87.
    Matteo Laspro et al. (2024) provide a thought-provoking review of the ethical issues surrounding Whole-Eye Transplantation (WET). In this commentary, we expand on three of the concerns they raise i...
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  • Whether Whole Eye Transplant is a Benefit or Harm Depends on More Than the Observer.Maya Sabatello & Mika Baugh - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics 24 (5):87-90.
    Laspro et al. (2024) contemplate the first whole eye transplant (WET) procedure in humans. They discuss the implications of such a procedure on the physical, social, and psychological well-being of...
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  • Ophthalmic Research’s Unique Challenges: Not All First-in-Human Surgeries Are the Same.Deborah R. Barnbaum - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics 24 (5):90-92.
    Laspro et al. (2024) present an insightful survey of ethical issues emerging in first-in-human whole eye transplants (WET). Their discussion is applicable to a broad range of first-in-human surgica...
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  • Equitable Participant Selection Concerns for First-In-Human Whole-Eye Transplantation.Christopher Bobier - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics 24 (5):98-100.
    Given advances in microsurgical techniques, immunomodulation protocols, and neuro-regenerative therapies, there is a growing likelihood that first-in-human whole-eye transplantation (WET) may be at...
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  • Reopening the ‘Window to the Soul’?: The Ethics of Eye Transplantation Now and in the Future.Arthur Caplan - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics 24 (5):6-7.
    Of all the five senses losing sight is the one that individuals fear the most. Worldwide blindness has afflicted tens of millions of people each year. Historically, this has inspired researchers an...
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  • A Surgeon’s Perspective From the Sharp End of Surgical Innovation.Martin F. McKneally - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics 24 (5):79-81.
    “Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery where from time to time he goes to pray—a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation of his failures” René Leriche,...
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  • Current Ethical Considerations of Human Whole Eye Transplantation is Short-Sighted.Abbas Rattani & Abdul-Hadi Kaakour - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics 24 (5):92-94.
    In May 2023, the world’s first whole-eye and partial-face transplant was performed, representing the first known whole-eye transplant in history and the “only successful combined transplant case of...
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