Living with Brain Injury : Narrative, Community, and Women's Renegotiation of Identity / J. Eric Stewart.
2013
RC387.5 .S745 2016
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Title
Living with Brain Injury : Narrative, Community, and Women's Renegotiation of Identity / J. Eric Stewart.
Author
Stewart, J. Eric, author.
ISBN
9780814770221
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814764718.001.0001 doi
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RC387.5 .S745 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
617.4810443
Summary
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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Qualitative Studies in Psychology ; ; 19
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. People and Methodology
2. Meeting Post-Injury
3. Oneself as Another
4. Fighting
5. Sense (and Sensibility) of Community
6. Wrestling with an Angel
Coda
Appendix
References
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. People and Methodology
2. Meeting Post-Injury
3. Oneself as Another
4. Fighting
5. Sense (and Sensibility) of Community
6. Wrestling with an Angel
Coda
Appendix
References
About the Author