Book description
Science is just one way of looking at life. As a neuroscientist
working at the forefront of medical research it is Ruth McKernan's
way. When her father, Billy, succumbed to a mystery illness and
slipped from consciousness into coma, Ruth watched his life ebb away
with a mixture of love and terror. She struggled for control by using
her scientific knowledge to analyse his medical condition.
In this moving account of her father's last year, love, grief and
hope are intertwined with a crystal-clear scientific explanation of
the way our brains and bodies work. The result is an inspired blend
where the contrasting view of scientist and daughter ultimately unite.
Ruth McKernan
is a Vice President of Drug Discovery for a multinational
pharmaceutical company and a visiting professor at London's Institute of
Psychiatry. She is an internationally recognized neuroscientist whose
talent for making complex science interesting, entertaining and
understandable earned her the Glaxo/ABSW Science Writers' Award for her
articles in the
Independent
. Ruth lives with her husband and two children near Canterbury in Kent.
