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Living with brain injury : narrative, community, and women's renegotiation of identity /

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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stewart, J. Eric (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Series:Qualitative studies in psychology
Subjects:
Women > Physiology > Social aspects.
Women > Health and hygiene > Psychological aspects.
Brain damage > Patients > Rehabilitation > Case studies.
Femmes > Physiologie > Aspect social.
MEDICAL > Surgery > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > General.
Brain damage > Patients > Rehabilitation
Women > Health and hygiene > Psychological aspects
Case studies
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.