Rubbernecker

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Rubbernecker was written with the generous help of Lisa Mead and Swaran Yarnell in the Cardiff School of Biosciences dissecting room. Any liberties taken with cadavers in this book are a fiction, and in no way reflect the professionalism and respect they show to their temporary charges. Thank you to Dr Jamie Lewis of the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, for pointing me in the right direction, to Dr Royce Abrahams and Mr Richard Rushman, FRCS for crucial help at an early stage, and to Professor Jenny Kitzinger, for kindly sharing her knowledge of family experiences of coma and vegetative states.

Many thanks also to the entire team at Transworld, who work so hard and with such enthusiasm. A special mention to Claire Ward and the art department for pushing the envelope!