Mr Humble Dr Butcher

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.

Comparat deseori cu dr. Frankenstein și ținta frecventelor atacuri din partea activiștilor pentru drepturile animalelor, Robert White a dus în laboratorul său o luptă pe care el însuși nu știa dacă o va câștiga în cele din urmă: cea cu limitele cele mai dure ale științei. În urma descoperirilor lui revoluționare, avea să fie pusă sub semnul întrebării însăși definiția vieții și a morții, așa cum fusese perpetuată de religie și de concepțiile filozofice. Dacă putea să demonstreze că, în urma transplantului, creierul cu toate amintirile lui supraviețuiește, atunci urma să salveze minți captive în corpuri muribunde.

Get the Summary of Brandy Schillace's Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher" recounts the story of Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who performed a pioneering kidney transplant on Richard Herrick using his identical twin brother Ronald's kidney. The book delves into the history of organ transplantation, the challenges of immune system rejection, and the advancements in surgical techniques that made such operations possible. It also introduces Robert White, a medical resident who later becomes a neurosurgeon deeply involved in brain research, contemplating the possibility of brain transplants as a means of preserving the essence of a person...

What happens if the blood runs out? Twin Rivers Hospital has a new executive director, and he has eyes on research money. How better to get it than to exploit Jake's unusual condition? In terror of becoming a lab rat-or worse, having the blood supply cut off-Jake faces more tests (and needles). But he's got bigger problems than Dr. Malloy. Hearing heartbeats, feeling the gnaw of hunger, and fighting uncontrollable fangs, Jake starts to worry he might be the monster he always thought he wasn't. Where is the line between victim and villain? Between disease and desire? Between epilemic-and vampire?