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Brandy Schillace, "Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)

New Books in Neuroscience

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The Ethics of Organ Transplant Surgery

Dr. Peter White performed up to 300 experiments on animals in his lab, including taking half the brain out of monkeys and seeing how they developed with only one hemisphere. Animal rights activists felt that he was needlessly damaging and torturing these animals. Another complaint came from the medical community: We're never going to actually use this on humans. So why are you performing? Why are you spending the money in this way? How much is life worth?

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