If I Only Had a Brain: Deconstructing Brain Injury (New Approaches in Sociology: Studies in Social Inequality, Social Changes, and Social Justice)

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. 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. Understanding the impairment (ABI) Understanding the disability The (im)possibilities of "insider, emancipatory" research Our impairments Our experiences of disability Differend perspectives.