Mr. Humble & Dr. Butcher

The “delightfully macabre” true tale of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon . . . and his quest to transplant the human soul (The New York Times).

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?

Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher tells the eerie, illuminating story of a seemingly impossible quest—and the long, strange journey from science fiction to science fact.