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The first hand transplant meant — apart from the extraordinary surgical procedure and due to the particular therapeutic purpose — an opportunity for a multidisciplinary (medical, juridical, ethical) consideration to support or contradict such a therapeutic procedure’s legitimacy, which could be considered “the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked”.
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Genovese, U. (2007). Informed Consent, Medico-Legal Implications, Public and Private Insurance Issues and Quantification of Disability in Hand Transplantation. In: Lanzetta, M., Dubernard, JM., Petruzzo, P. (eds) Hand Transplantation. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0374-3_13
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