Here’s a lovely tale of cold war mad science, (briefly) two-headed dogs and monkeys, and a well-honed lack of medical ethics.
During his trip, White learned of new Soviet experiments, in which a severed dog’s head had been kept ‘alive’, not by stitching it onto another dog’s body, but using special life-support machinery. Most remarkable of all, the isolated head had continued to show signs of consciousness - its eyes blinking in response to light, and ears pricking at the tap of a hammer on the cases it was in.
It’s always nice to realize that one’s science fiction has historical grounding.
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