Billy's halo : love, science and my father's death
McKernan, Ruth2007
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Science is just one way of looking at life and as a neuro- scientist, it is McKernan's way. She tells the story of her father Billy's last year as he succumbed to a mystery illness. She blends love, emotion, and death with a scientific explanation of the way our brains and bodies work in sickness.
Main title:
Billy's halo : love, science and my father's death / Ruth McKernan.
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Imprint:
London : Black Swan, 2007.
Collation:
362 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2006.Includes index.
ISBN:
9780552772822 (pbk)0552772828 (pbk)
Dewey class:
612.8'092612.809
Language:
English
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BRN:
196234
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