Confronting Traumatic Brain Injury: Devastation, Hope, and Healing

by William J. Winslade and Professor William J. Winslade

Book Overview

Traumatic brain injury is the fourth most common cause of death in the developed world: in the United States alone, 75,000 to 100,000 people die of brain trauma each year, and another 70,000 to 90,000... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300079427
• ISBN13: 9780300079425
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Easy to understand

THis book is great because it is a quick read with interesting information and case studies in language anyone can understand. On a side note, the author is one of my professors, and he knows a lot about this topic.

This book started a fire in me

After caregiving my spouse well into the 7th year, I found this highly informative book, which treats of Traumatic Brain Injury from several angles including public medicine. It was such smooth reading, I didn't want to put it down, and wrote down several page numbers to read again (which I did). I'm getting a copy for my grown children to read and understand their father's situation better. Winslade's book makes me want to get organized and speak to youth, PTAs,--everyone about preventing TBI which kills so many in the US and destroys so many more. With more effort, like we did in the cigarette wars, perhaps we'd no longer have a 1-every-15 seconds Traumatic Brain Injury rate in the U.S.

great at being what it is

While obvious that there was never an intent or attempt to delve into the technical details of treating TBIs, this book is amazingly well written so that it achieves precisely what was inteded: a readable and relatable journey through the recovery process. The use of both an intimate and widely known examples for the reader to relate to the topic is just one of the many attributes that makes this book an excelent resource for a broad audience

Excellent Information

A well written and informative book on brain injury. Many personal examples are provided which helped me understand the phases of recovery and difficulties along the way. Note that the material is dealt with in a realistic fashion, which does not always translate into a positive or uplifting description of the variable recovery outcomes. My sister was severly injured an an auto accident. I appreciated the realistic examples provided, as opposed to other treatments of the subject with poetry and quaint hopeful phrases. My sister may never be the same, but I am optimistic that the information will help me to understand her recovery process.

traumatic brain injury

This book addresses the topic of traumatic brain injury from several viewpoints: the personal experience of the author, case histories of others and their immediate and long term treatment. The legal, moral, ethical and medical aspects of these cases are discussed and the progress made in the 1990s in knowledge, treatment and dissemination of information to the professional community. Straightforward and readable, it recognizes the needs and considerations of the survivor and the family. The political forces influencing the issue and recognition of traumatic brain injury are considered as well as the financial bearing on rehabilitation and social responsibility. The ethics of quality of life and death is examined and presented to the reader. The book is altogether thought provoking to anyone interested in the field of traumatic brain injury and propects for recovery.