A tale of a neurosurgeon with another identity By IANS | Published on Wed, Mar 10 2021 17:57 IST | 0 Views 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.