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The extraordinary life of an American neuroscientist who believed he could transplant human consciousness by cooling brains before removing and placing them in another body is told in a fascinating new book.
The work of Robert White, whose life ambition was to transplant a human head, is explored by Brandy Schillace in Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey s Head, the Pope s Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul.
In a race against the Soviet Union, White conducted brain experiments on mice and dogs in the 50s and 60s, before perfecting the head transplant surgery in 1970 through his work on hundreds of monkeys.