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Persons with Adult-Onset Head Injury: A Crucial Resource for Feminist Philosophers
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 16, Number 4, Fall 2001
- pp. 105-123
- Article
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The effects of head injury, even mild traumatic brain injury, are wide-ranging and profound. Persons with adult-onset head injury offer feminist philosophers important perspectives for philosophical methodology and philosophical research concerning personal identity, mind-body theories, and ethics. The needs of persons with head injury require the expansion of typical teaching strategies, and such adaptations appear beneficial to both disabled and non-disabled students.