

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)
Nov 19, 2021
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Introduction
00:00 • 3min
I've Never Liked Crowds, but Now I Have Chickens
02:56 • 3min
How Did You Get Interested in Health and Medicine?
05:27 • 2min
Medical Humanities - How Did You Become an Editor?
07:00 • 2min
Are You Taking the Right Risks?
09:10 • 2min
A Novel About a Doctor Who Transplanted a Monkey's Head
11:02 • 4min
Transplanting Organs: The First Kidney Transplant
14:34 • 4min
Organ Donation
18:27 • 2min
Organs That Can't Be Transplanted
20:06 • 2min
Isolating the Brain
22:08 • 3min
How to Transplant a Monkey Head
25:07 • 4min
Doctor White's Experiments With Spinal Cord Transplants
28:39 • 3min
The Ethics of Organ Transplant Surgery
31:19 • 3min
Is It Really Necessary?
34:04 • 2min
The Science of Human Head Transplantation
36:09 • 3min
How Did Coes Fund These Weird Experiments?
39:03 • 4min
Ethics and Social Justice in Medicine and the Humanities
43:33 • 2min
What Are the Implications of Pushing the Limits of Science?
45:13 • 3min
How Did Transplants Happen?
48:29 • 2min
Transplant Chicken's Head at Night?
50:18 • 4min