About the Book: Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher
The mesmerizing biography 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