Peter Fenwick: The Art of Dying Well

Dr Fenwick is a consultant neuropsychiatrist and for many years ran the neuropsychiatric and epilepsy unit at the Maudsley Hospital and was Co-Director of both research and clinical programs at the Department of Neurophysiology at Broadmoor Hospital, UK. He also runs a clinical and forensic neuropsychiatric practice.

For the last ten years he has spent several months a year at the RIKEN Neuroscience Institute in Japan, examining brain function through a study of the brain's magnetic field – the relatively new technique of magnetoencephalography. His major interest now is the problem of consciousness and, specifically, how consciousness changes as we approach death.

In the UK he has carried out research into near death experiences in coronary care units, and is at present conducting surveys of end of life experiences in hospices and nursing homes in southern England and in Holland.

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