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Living With Brain Injury Narrative, Community, and Women S Renegotiation of Identity

Name: Living With Brain Injury
Author: J. Eric Stewart

Auteur: J. Eric Stewart

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: J. Eric Stewart

Engels
Hardcover
9780814764718
16 december 2013
255 pagina's

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Showcases how - and on what terms - the women come to re-author identity, community, and meaning post-injury.

When Nancy was in her late twenties, she began having blinding headaches, tunnel vision, and dizziness, which led to the discovery of an abnormality on her brain stem. Complications during surgery caused serious brain damage, resulting in partial paralysis of the left side of her body and memory and cognitive problems. Although she was constantly evaluated by her doctors, Nancy’s own questions and her distress got little attention in the hospital. Later, despite excellent job performance post-injury, her physical impairments were regarded as an embarrassment to the “perfect” and “beautiful” corporate image of her employer.
Many conversations about brain injury are deficit-focused: those with disabilities are typically spoken about by others, as being a problem about which something must be done. In Living with Brain Injury, J. Eric Stewart takes a new approach, offering narratives which highlight those with brain injury as agents of recovery and change in their own lives.
Stewart draws on in-depth interviews with ten women with acquired brain injuries to offer an evocative, multi-voiced account of the women’s strategies for resisting marginalization and of their process of making sense of new relationships to self, to family and friends, to work, and to community. Bridging psychology, disability studies, and medical sociology, Living with Brain Injury showcases how—and on what terms—the women come to re-author identity, community, and meaning post-injury.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 16 december 2013
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Hoofdauteur: J. Eric Stewart
Hoofduitgeverij: New York University Press

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Geneeskunde & Verpleging

Psychologie

Sociale & Ethische kwesties

Sociale groepen

Invaliditeit

Genderstudies

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Taal: Engels
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