The heads of Professor White. Skillche B.

This book talks about an incredibly ambitious venture - attempts to transplant a human head for the first time in history. Medicine historian Brandy Skillche writes how the experiments of transplant scientists laid the foundation for technologies that save lives to this day. In the middle of the last century, the Soviet Union and the United States not only competed in space and military technologies, but also fought for the championship in the field of transplantology. The work of scientists of both countries gave impetus to the unprecedented development of medical technologies. At the center of the story is the amazing fate of the neurosurge of Robert Joseph White, who conducted animal challenging operations, was friends with two Roman dads, founded the Vatican Commission on the Bioemician and was nominated for the Nobel Prize for the brain cooling method, which still helps to successfully conduct complex operations. This is a story about a long way from science fiction to a scientific fact, about the conflict of scientists with zoo guards and society, which was not ready for discoveries, about our great fears and great hopes.