If I Only Had a Brain: Deconstructing Brain Injury

ISBN-13: 9780415975728 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 256 str.

Mark Sherry

Opis

Offering an insider's viewpoint of the lived experience of brain injury, this book uses a theoretical approach drawing upon the social and medical models of disability and combining them with lessons from feminism, postcolonial and postmodern literature to frame a narrative about the experience of brain injury.

Spis treści

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER TWO: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPAIRMENT (ABI)CHAPTERTHREE: UNDERSTANDING THE DISABILITYCHAPTER FOUR: THE (IM)POSSIBILITIES OF INSIDER, EMANCIPATORY RESEARCHCHAPTER FIVE: OUR IMPAIRMENTSCHAPTER SIX: OUR EXPERIENCES OF DISABILITYCHAPTER SEVEN: DIFFEREND PERSPECTIVESCHAPTER EIGHT: CONCLUSIONSNOTESBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX

O autorze

Mark Sherry, Endowed Chair of Disability Studies at The University of Toledo, is an internationally known researcher on disability issues - particularly brain injury and disability hate crimes. A keynote speaker many major conferences in Australia, New Zealand and the United States, Dr. Sherry has published in Disability and Society, The Review of Disability Studies and Disability Studies Quarterly.