Sociological perspectives on brain injury

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Sociological perspectives on brain injury

• A revenge on modern times?
• David Webb

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An assortment of acknowledgements, confessions
and admissions
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• There but for the Grace of God
• a curious reason to do sociology

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Some threads

• The brain
• The mind
• The self
• The future

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Something about modernity and the mind
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Impairments of the mind and body a delicate
matter

• ...controversially, the proposition is that the
  those who are head injured have a greater
  propensity to be socially excluded than do the
  potentially more productive group of people who
  are physically disabled

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The idea of a silent epidemic of modern times
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High speed high risk The gendering of a
disability
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A sometimes uneasy triumph over mortality
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The impact on the life project,and the
psychodynamics of care
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Reference

• David Webb (1998), A Revenge on Modern Times
  Notes on Traumatic Brain Injury. Sociology, Vol.
  32, No. 3, 541-555. Also in The Sociology of
  Health and Illness Reader, edited by Sarah
  Nettleton and Ulla Gustafsson. Cambridge, Polity
  Press, 2002