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Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher
- Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul
- Gesprochen von: Jean Ann Douglass
- Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 49 Min.
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The “delightfully macabre” (The New York Times) true tale 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 side of the Iron Curtain competed to become the first to transplant organs like the kidney and heart, a young American neurosurgeon had an even more ambitious thought: Why not transplant the brain?
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. In his lab, he was waging a battle against the limits of science and against mortality itself - working to perfect a surgery that would allow the soul to live on after the human body had died.
This “fascinating” (The Wall Street Journal), “provocative” (The Washington Post) tale follows his decades-long quest into tangled matters of science, Cold War politics, and faith, revealing the complex (and often murky) ethics of experimentation and remarkable innovations that today save patients from certain death. It’s a “masterful” (Science) look at our greatest fears and our greatest hopes - and the long, strange journey from science fiction to science fact.
Kritikerstimmen
“Spirited and breezily provocative.... White’s unorthodox quest made national news several times over the course of his long career, but in Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher, Brandy Schillace finally gives it the thoughtful book-length treatment it deserves.” (The Washington Post)
“Engrossing. Schillace is a first-rate historian with the perceptive eye of a storyteller.” (Lindsey Fitzharris, New York Times best-selling author of The Butchering Art)
“A rollicking, irresistible tale of doctors playing God, science facing off with ideology, and fate being sorely tempted at every turn.” (Robert Kolker, New York Times best-selling author of Hidden Valley Road)
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- Li_mann, Guido
- 25.03.2022
Good - and not as much Pope as I had expected
Based on the book's subtitle, I had expected a lot more pope with my "head transplants". Not for any spiritual or moral insights. My atheism needs as much church meddling as brain science, which is none. Just would have been interesting. The meat of it all, Dr. White's quest to perfect and perform the human full-body-transplant, and his achievements along the way, was captivating to me. There is a lot of detail - but not so much that most people could not keep up. I think. Human subjects are mostly not just introduced as "an accident victim", but are introduced as persons, with names, lives, and whatever tragedy lead to them coming across Dr. White's scalpel. I think that is important, for a book such as this. Making it clear that something like a full-body transplant wouldn't just benefit billionaires seeking to extend their life. Likewise, the introduction to the people who benefit from Dr. White's work, like (spoiler warning) the little girl who's brain's blood vessels had grown outside of her skull, gives perspective to criticism of animal testing. Dr. White's immediate conflict with Ingrid Newkirk and PETA is illustrated. Somewhat biased in favor of Dr. White's work. But as critical as this book is of the behavior of PETA and certain PETA activists, it does not just entirely dismiss their cause, as other biographies might.
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