If I Only Had a Brain - Deconstructing Brain Injury

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext This book offers a rich, insider's viewpoint of the lived experience of brain injury. Sherry, a survivor of brain injury himself, uses a cross-disciplinary theoretical approach (drawing upon the social and medical models of disability and combining them with lessons from feminism, queer theory, postcolonial and postmodern literature) to frame an enriching narrative about the lived experience of brain injury. Zusammenfassung Offers an insider's viewpoint of the lived experience of brain injury. This book uses a cross-disciplinary theoretical approach drawing upon the social and medical models of disability and combining them with lessons from feminism, queen theory, postcolonial and postmodern literature to frame a narrative about the experience of brain injury. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mark Sherry
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 09.03.2006
• EAN: 9780415975728
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97572-8
• Seiten: 256
• Serie: New Approaches in Sociology
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Allgemeines; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Mental Health, Society & culture: general, Teaching of students with different educational needs, Society and culture: general