“The Medea Clinic belongs to Quentin, and with it all the patents, from the time when doctors learned to grow hearts and kidneys by seeding a neutral matrix with the patient’s own cells, to the layer-by-layer replacement of the entire body that they do now … They will simply shed their old bodies like a snake sheds its skin. Plastic surgery is a pale shadow of what the Medea Clinic offers.

The American version of “The Head of Professor Dowell” - without a professor, but with big business plans.