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The punch-drunk boxer and the battered wife: Gender and brain injury research

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  • Casper, Stephen T.
  • O'Donnell, Kelly

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This essay uses gender as a category of historical and sociological analysis to situate two populations—boxers and victims of domestic violence—in context and explain the temporal and ontological discrepancies between them as potential brain injury patients. In boxing, the question of brain injury and its sequelae were analyzed from 1928 on, often on profoundly somatic grounds. With domestic violence, in contrast, the question of brain injury and its sequelae appear to have been first examined only after 1990. Symptoms prior to that period were often cast as functional in specific psychiatric and psychological nomenclatures. We examine this chronological and epistemological disconnection between forms of violence that appear otherwise highly similar even if existing in profoundly different spaces.

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  • Casper, Stephen T. & O'Donnell, Kelly, 2020. "The punch-drunk boxer and the battered wife: Gender and brain injury research," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 245(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:245:y:2020:i:c:s0277953619306835
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112688
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