About this episode
The superpower rivalry of the Cold War had many different fronts, space, the rice paddy fields of south-east Asia and even the operating theatre. The desire to push the envelope of human ingenuity led Dr Robert J. White to conduct a series of successful head transplants on monkies during the 1970s with the eventual aim of performing the procedure on a human patient. Dr Brandy Schillace, the author of Mr Humble and Dr Butcher , is today's guest on the podcast and she tells the almost unbelievable story of how close we came to seeing human head transplants take place. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.