Sök
Logga in
  • Hem

  • Kategorier

  • Ljudböcker

  • E-böcker

  • Magasin

  • För barn

  • Topplistor

  • Hjälp

  • Ladda ner appen

  • Lös in kampanjkod

  • Lös in presentkort

  • Prova gratis nu
  • Logga in
  • Språk

    • 🇸🇪 Sverige
    • 🇧🇪 Belgique
    • 🇩🇰 Danmark
    • 🇩🇪 Deutschland
    • 🇪🇸 España
    • 🇫🇷 France
    • 🇳🇱 Nederland
    • 🇳🇴 Norge
    • 🇦🇹 Österreich
    • 🇨🇭 Schweiz
    • 🇫🇮 Suomi
  1. Böcker
  2. Biografier
  3. Naturvetenskap, teknik, medicin

Läs och lyssna gratis i 42 dagar!

Avsluta när du vill

Prova gratis nu
0.0(0)

Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher : Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul

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.

Ljudbok

  • Publicerad: 2021-03-02

  • Språk: Engelska

  • Förlag: Simon & Schuster Audio

  • ISBN: 9781797121314


Författare:

  • Brandy Schillace

Format:

  • Ljudbok

Längd:

  • 10 tim 49 min

Språk:

Engelska

Kategorier:

  • Biografier
  • Naturvetenskap, teknik, medicin
  • Historia
  • Amerika
  • Fakta
  • Medicin och omvårdnad

Mer av Brandy Schillace

Hoppa över listan
  1. The Dead Come to Stay : A Novel

    Brandy Schillace

    audiobook
  2. The Intermediaries : A Weimar Story

    Brandy Schillace

    audiobook
  3. The Framed Women of Ardemore House : A Novel

    Brandy Schillace

    audiobook
  4. Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher : A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul

    Brandy Schillace

    book

Andra har också läst

Hoppa över listan
  1. The Heart Speaks : A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing

    Mimi Guarneri

    book
  2. We Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends

    David Herbert Donald

    book
  3. Ex-Friends : Falling Out With Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer

    Norman Podhoretz

    book
  4. The John Updike Audio Collection

    John Updike

    audiobook
  5. The Edge of Malice

    David P. Miraldi

    audiobook
  6. Om Andra röster, andra rum av Truman Capote

    Sebastian Lönnlöv

    book
  7. Ord kan krossa betong : berättelsen om Pussy Riot

    Masha Gessen

    book
  8. Feber: Berlins universum 1930–1933

    Peter Walther

    book
  9. Dagens gennyheter : hur massmedier berättar om genetik och genteknik

    Malin Ideland

    book
  10. Vändpunkten

    Klaus Mann

    book
  11. Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoj

    Stefan Zweig

    book
  12. The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle

    Beatrix Potter

    book

Hjälp och kontakt


Om oss

  • Vår historia
  • Karriär
  • Press
  • Tillgänglighet
  • Samarbeta med oss
  • För investerare
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Utforska

  • Kategorier
  • Ljudböcker
  • E-böcker
  • Magasin
  • För barn
  • Topplistor

Populära kategorier

  • Deckare
  • Biografier och reportage
  • Romaner
  • Feelgood och romance
  • Personlig utveckling
  • Barnböcker
  • Sanna berättelser
  • Sömn och avslappning

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Integritetspolicy · Användarvillkor ·
Utmärkt4.3 av 5