As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the American with Disability Act this book reminds us of one of the last bastions of forgotten and marginalized individuals: people in coma and so called vegetative states. Comatose people don’t interact with their environment in conventional ways which led to the belief that there is “no one home”. Just recently a group of researchers using functional brain imaging scans uncovered signs of awareness in people that were believed to be in a vegetative state. They now believe that up to 40% of people in vegetative states are aware and misdiagnosed. “Inside Coma” shares the journeys of people in coma, vegetative states, or in the aftermath of a brain injury and offers tools for families and care teams to relate to their loved ones and cope with the difficult task of assisting them.
Creative Healing
