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      A Sociological Approach to Acquired Brain Injury and Identity
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      A Sociological Approach to Acquired Brain Injury and Identity

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      A Sociological Approach to Acquired Brain Injury and Identity

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      A Sociological Approach to Acquired Brain Injury and Identity book

      ByJonathan Harvey
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2018
      eBook Published 30 April 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315565217
      Pages 152
      eBook ISBN 9781315565217
      Subjects Health and Social Care, Social Sciences
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      Harvey, J. (2018). A Sociological Approach to Acquired Brain Injury and Identity (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315565217

      ABSTRACT

      Inspired by the author’s personal experience of sustaining acquired brain injury (ABI), this path-breaking book explores the (re)construction of identity after ABI. It offers a way of understanding ABI through a social scientific lens, promoting an understanding that is generated through close engagement with the lives and experiences of ABI survivors.

      The author follows the everyday experiences of six male survivors and critically investigates their identity (re)construction after their ABI. As well as demonstrating identity (re)construction after ABI, the experiences of the participants allow the reader to investigate neurological rehabilitation from their perspective. This book suggests that rehabilitation after ABI is often a continual process that extends beyond the formal, medically prescribed period. It also shows that identity after ABI is often (re)constructed in an unpredictable way; a way that emphasises the importance of reciprocal support and the uncertainty of future life.

      A Sociological Approach to Acquired Brain Injury and Identity is essential reading for academics and students from a range of social scientific disciplines with an interest in biographical or ethnographic research methods. This book offers a social scientific view of rehabilitation and as such is also essential reading for academics, students and professionals with an interest in health and illness, particularly neurological rehabilitation and brain injury rehabilitation.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|18 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 2|13 pages

      A clinical introduction to acquired brain injury and rehabilitation

      chapter 3|20 pages

      Mapping the terrain

      Theorising my identity (re)construction after ABI

      chapter 4|25 pages

      Researching the everyday complexities of the lives of ABI survivors

      chapter 5|17 pages

      Dependence, independence and interdependence in the lives of ABI survivors

      chapter 6|25 pages

      Exploring time in ABI rehabilitation

      Towards a rehabilitation imagination?

      chapter 7|19 pages

      Critical reflections

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