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Reply Well-researched. Well-written. Suspenseful. Best of all, the book is fascinating. The Wall Street Journal
Shaker Library will host medical historian and critically-acclaimed author Brandy Schillace at 7 pm Wednesday evening June 2 via Zoom when she will discuss her newest book,
Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey s Head, the Pope s Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul.
The book is the true story of the late Dr. Robert White, Shaker resident and MetroHealth s first Chief of Neurosurgery, who tested the boundaries of science and ethics in his quest to transplant the human soul. The electronic book is available to download here from Overdrive or the physical book can be reserved here from the library.
A tale of a neurosurgeon with another identity
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Wed, Mar 10 2021 17:57 IST |
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A tale of a neurosurgeon with another identity. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, March 10 : This is a mesmerizing biography of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon and his quest to transplant the human soul.
In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that we all know, but a race to master the inner space of the human body.
Dr. Robert White was a friend to two popes and a founder of the Vatican s Commission on Bioethics. He developed lifesaving neurosurgical techniques still used in hospitals today and was nominated for the Nobel Prize. But, like Dr. Jekyll before him, Dr. White had another identity.