Decisions -- The injury -- Coming to terms with brain injury -- The origins of the vegetative state -- A shift since Quinlan -- Maggie's wishes -- Something happened in Arkansas -- From PVS to MCS -- Leaving the hospital -- Heather's story -- Neuroimaging and neuroscience in the public mind -- Contractures and contradictions : medical necessity and the injured brain -- Minds, monuments, and moments -- Heads and hearts, toil and tears -- What do families want? -- Deep brain stimulation in MCS -- Mending our brains, minding our ethics -- It's still freedom -- Maggie's in town -- When consciousness becomes prosthetic -- The rights of mind -- A call for advocacy.