During a recent Skype call, Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero waved a tattered grey book in front of the camera and said it contained one of the keys to the outlandish procedure he claims to be on track to complete this year: the world’s first full-body transplant.
The book was “Frankenstein,” Mary Shelley’s classic 1818 novel about a distraught scientist who discovers how to give life to inanimate matter.
