This is a classic article from Â鶹´«Ã½’s archive, republished as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations
THE race to conduct the first face transplant, albeit only partial, has been won by a French team, ahead of rivals in the US and the UK. But were the surgeons right to give 38-year-old Isabelle Dinoire a triangular flap of facial tissue containing the nose, lips and chin of a dead woman?
Dinoire, who had been savaged by her dog, thanked the surgeons after waking from the 4-hour operation at a hospital in Amiens on 27 November. But some doctors and medical…
