Mr. Humble and Dr. ButCher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul

This book tells about an incredibly ambitious undertaking - attempts for the first time in history to transplant a human head. Medical historian Brandi Squillace writes how the experiments of transplant scientists laid the foundation for technologies that save lives today. In the middle of the last century, the Soviet Union and the United States not only competed in space and military technologies, but also fought for supremacy in the field of transplantology. The work of scientists from bo...