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1 online resource. |
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Qualitative studies in psychology |
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Qualitative studies in psychology.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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, in addition to 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 this book, the author takes a new approach, offering narratives which highlight those with brain injury as agents of recovery and change in their own lives. The author 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, this book showcases how - and on what terms - the women come to re-author identity, community, and meaning post-injury. -- Provided by publisher |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- People and methodology -- Meeting post-injury -- Oneself as another -- Fighting -- Sense (and sensibility) of community -- Wrestling with an angel -- Coda -- Appendix : Brief Summary of Participants' Demographics and Injuries. |
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Women -- Physiology -- Social aspects.
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- Psychological aspects.
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Brain damage -- Patients -- Rehabilitation -- Case studies.
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Femmes -- Physiologie -- Aspect social.
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MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
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Brain damage -- Patients -- Rehabilitation
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- Psychological aspects
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Case studies
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Print version: Stewart, J. Eric. Living with brain injury : narrative, community, and women's renegotiation of identity. New York : NYU Press, ©2013 9780814764718 |
| ISBN |
9780814770221 (electronic bk.) |
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0814770223 (electronic bk.) |
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0814760481 |
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9780814760482 |
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9780814764718 (hardback) |
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9780814760482 (paper) |
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0814764711 |
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AU@ 000054196252 |
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DEBBG BV042795983 |
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DEBSZ 421240296 |
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DEBSZ 493131329 |
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GBVCP 813218624 |
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NZ1 15317860 |
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