Comrades! Get TWO MONTHS FREE (that's one month per head) of Skillshare membership by signing up at https://skl.sh/medlifecrisis2. Russian over there now! My article on the race to transplant the first human heart: https://theconversation.com/chimps-racism-and-the-definition-of-death-the-heart-transplant-story-84864 The 2 controversial Soviet scientists of whom you've never heard: Animal testing is part and parcel of medical progress but where should one draw the line? Wherever you think it is, it's fair to say Sergei Brukhonenko and Vladimir Demikhov overstepped it when they attempted to re-animate decapitated dogs and created 2-headed Frankendawgs. ----------------- More Medlife Crisis: http://www.medlifecrisis.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/medcrisis https://www.facebook.com/Medlifecrisis https://www.instagram.com/medcrisis ----------------- Brown-Séquard’s Journal de la physiologie de l'homme et des animaux - https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k77336x/f5.image Write up on Brukhonenko - https://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(00)01091-2/pdf Experiments in the Revival of Organisms, introduced by a familiar name to all anaesthetists, Professor JBS Haldane (public domain) - https://archive.org/details/Experime1940 Write up on Demikhov - https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/38/46/3406/4706202