Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher : a monkey's head, the Pope's neuroscientist, and the quest to transplant...
Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher : a monkey's head, the Pope's neuroscientist, and the quest to transplant...
Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher : a monkey's head, the Pope's neuroscientist, and the quest to transplant the soul / Brandy Schillace.
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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Call Numbers
G 2020/5189
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Language
English
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Physical content
x, 303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: Meet the resurrection men -- For want of a kidney -- Two-headed dogs and the space race -- What do dead brains think? -- Brains behind the iron curtain (or, Science, vodka, and pretty girls) -- Frankenstein's monkey -- The modern Prometheus -- The human animal -- The perfect patient --...
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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2021.
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Summary
"The 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. While surgeons on either...
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Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher : a monkey's head, the Pope's neuroscientist, and the quest to transplant the soul / Brandy Schillace.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2021
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G 2020/5189
Record Identifier
74VKaJ0oRzzy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaJ0oRzzy
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ISBN
1982113774
9781982113773
DDC
617.48092
MMS ID
991024373517502626
