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 Serge VoronoffVoronoff was a French surgeon notorious for transplanting glandular tissue from monkeys into humans in the 1920s and 30s in an attempt to slow and reverse the aging process. By the early 1930s, thousands of men around the world had been treated with Voronoff's "rejuvenation" technique, but his popularity waned when it became clear that the procedure did not produce the desired results. What notorious experiment conducted by Voronoff inspired the novel Nora, the Monkey Turned Woman? More...
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The fascinatingly interplay betwixt monkeys and men has been a phenomena which has captivated science for years.
Voronoff's venture into xenotransplants, or as he would prefer it, "rejuvenation," seems a matter of consentual terms, betwixt patient and doctor, so I dare not join the fickle masses, whose pendulum swings from love to loathe, on a whim.
Besides, vanity has led many down the path less traversed.
As it relates to Nora, or any fascimile thereof, the absence and/or presence of an organ is not the penultimate determinant in making one a man or a woman. Countless females have ovaries, yet they are far from ladies.
Most males have testicles, but I'm not sure that makes him a man.
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I don't think the issue is whether or not having monkey ovaries makes you a woman, I think the issue is the attempt to then mate a monkey egg with a human sperm cell to create "humonkeys." Talk about a violation of medical ethics. The stem cell debate pales in comparison.
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MichalG wrote:I don't think the issue is whether or not having monkey ovaries makes you a woman, I think the issue is the attempt to then mate a monkey egg with a human sperm cell to create "humonkeys." Talk about a violation of medical ethics. The stem cell debate pales in comparison. Agreed. This story sounds like something out of The Island of Doctor Moreau.
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