The Resource Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher : a monkey's head, the Pope's neuroscientist, and the quest to transplant the soul, Brandy Schillace
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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- Summary
- The story of an American neurosurgeon’s Cold War-era attempts to not only perform a brain transplant, but also his work to perfect surgery that would allow the soul to live on after the death of the body. Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher follows his decades-long quest into tangled matters of science, global politics, and faith, revealing the complex (and often murky) ethics of experimentation and remarkable innovations that today save patients from certain death
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
- Extent
- x, 303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- 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
- What if we don't need the spinal cord?
- Conclusion: Dr. Frankenstein's reprise
- Isbn
- 9781982113773
- Label
- Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher : a monkey's head, the Pope's neuroscientist, and the quest to transplant the soul
- Title
- Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher
- Title remainder
- a monkey's head, the Pope's neuroscientist, and the quest to transplant the soul
- Statement of responsibility
- Brandy Schillace
- Title variation
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- Mister Humble and Doctor Butcher
- Mr. Humble & Dr. Butcher
- Title variation remainder
- a monkeys head, the Popes neuroscientist, and the quest to transplant the soul
- Subject
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- trueAnimal experimentation
- Biographies
- trueCatholics
- trueEthics
- trueFaith (Christianity)
- trueMedical ethics
- Medical ethics -- United States -- History
- trueNeuroscience
- trueNeurosurgeons
- Neurosurgeons -- United States -- Biography
- trueSoul
- trueSurgeons
- trueTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc -- United States -- History
- trueTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects
- trueUnited States
- White, Robert Joseph, 1926-2010
- trueAmbition in men
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The story of an American neurosurgeon’s Cold War-era attempts to not only perform a brain transplant, but also his work to perfect surgery that would allow the soul to live on after the death of the body. Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher follows his decades-long quest into tangled matters of science, global politics, and faith, revealing the complex (and often murky) ethics of experimentation and remarkable innovations that today save patients from certain death
- Awards note
- Ohioana Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction 2022
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10948703
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Schillace, Brandy
- Dewey number
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- 617.4/8092
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- White, Robert Joseph
- Neurosurgeons
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc
- Medical ethics
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- a monkey's head, the Pope's neuroscientist, and the quest to transplant the soul
- Label
- Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher : a monkey's head, the Pope's neuroscientist, and the quest to transplant the soul, Brandy Schillace
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-281) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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 -- What if we don't need the spinal cord? -- Conclusion: Dr. Frankenstein's reprise
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
- Extent
- x, 303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781982113773
- Lccn
- 2020038727
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
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- 3440789
- (OCoLC)on1162987570
- Label
- Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher : a monkey's head, the Pope's neuroscientist, and the quest to transplant the soul, Brandy Schillace
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-281) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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 -- What if we don't need the spinal cord? -- Conclusion: Dr. Frankenstein's reprise
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
- Extent
- x, 303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781982113773
- Lccn
- 2020038727
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
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- 3440789
- (OCoLC)on1162987570
Subject
- trueAnimal experimentation
- Biographies
- trueCatholics
- trueEthics
- trueFaith (Christianity)
- trueMedical ethics
- Medical ethics -- United States -- History
- trueNeuroscience
- trueNeurosurgeons
- Neurosurgeons -- United States -- Biography
- trueSoul
- trueSurgeons
- trueTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc -- United States -- History
- trueTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects
- trueUnited States
- White, Robert Joseph, 1926-2010
- trueAmbition in men
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