The Bizarre History of Head Transplants
How a scientist’s daring experiments pushed the limits of medicine
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9 min readMay 11, 2021
On a cold night in Cleveland in 1971, Dr. Robert White waited for signs of life. He stood, exhausted and still enrobed in a stiff surgical coat, over an operating table. Fluorescent lights bled color from the room, leaving it sterile, silent. A rhesus monkey lay before him — its shaved…
