The punch-drunk boxer and the battered wife

Gender and brain injury research

Bibliographic Data

ID4593092
AuthorsStephen T Casper (0000-0003-2915-8592, Clarkson University, corresponding author), Kelly O’donnell (0000-0002-7055-870X, Thomas Jefferson University), Kelly O''Donnell, Kelly O'Donnell
Year2020
Volume245
Pages112688
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science & Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112688
PMID31830739
OpenAlexW2991297548
LanguageEN
Citations received6

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

Context (archaeology · Criminology · Disconnection · Domestic violence · Injury prevention · Medical emergency · Poison control · Psychiatry · Suicide prevention · Wife · History · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies · Traumatic Brain Injury Research

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