Billy's Halo
Subtitle: Love, Science and My Father's Death
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
Published: January 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780309658089
Subjects: Death, Grief, Bereavement; General; Psychology
Description: As Ruth McKernan s father slowly succumbs to a mysterious illness, she relies on her professional training as a neuroscientist to help her work through her fear and grief. Ruth recounts the story of Billy s last year while exploring a collection of cutting-edge scientific themes delving into memory, consciousness, microbes, and stem cells gracefully linking them together like pearls strung upon the thread of her father s life. – from publisher information.