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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

synergies --- Rehabilitation --- Rehab robotics --- Prosthetics and exoskeletons --- brain machine interfaces --- Human machine interfaces

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Civil engineering, surveying & building --- Biotechnology --- synergies --- Rehabilitation --- Rehab robotics --- Prosthetics and exoskeletons --- brain machine interfaces --- Human machine interfaces

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Hurt: Chronicles of the Drug War Generation weaves engaging first-person accounts of the lives of baby boomer drug users, including author Miriam Boeri's first-hand knowledge as the sister of a heroin addict. The compelling stories are set in historical context, from the cultural influence of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll to contemporary discourse that pegs drug addiction as a disease punishable by incarceration. With penetrating insight and conscientious attention to the intersectionality of race, gender, and class, Boeri reveals the impact of an increasingly punitive War on Drugs on a hurting generation.

Drug abuse --- Baby boom generation --- Social aspects --- american culture. --- baby boomer. --- class issues. --- crime and punishment. --- criminals. --- cultural context. --- disease. --- drug addict. --- drug addiction. --- drug crimes. --- drug user. --- drugs. --- family issues. --- family problems. --- gender. --- healing. --- heroin addict. --- historical context. --- illegal drugs. --- incarceration. --- intersectionality. --- race. --- recovery. --- rehab. --- rehabilitation. --- sex drugs and rock n roll. --- war on drugs.

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Traumatic brain injury can interrupt without warning the life story that any one of us is in the midst of creating. When the author's fifteen-year-old son survives a terrible car crash in spite of massive trauma to his brain, she and her family know only that his story has not ended. Their efforts, Erik's own efforts, and those of everyone who helps bring him from deep coma to new life make up a moving and inspiring story for us all, one that invites us to reconsider the very nature of "self" and selfhood. Ruthann Knechel Johansen, who teaches literature and narrative theory, is a particularly eloquent witness to the silent space in which her son, confronted with life-shattering injury and surrounded by conflicting narratives about his viability, is somehow reborn. She describes the time of crisis and medical intervention as an hour-by-hour struggle to communicate with the medical world on the one hand and the everyday world of family and friends on the other. None of them knows how much, or even whether, they can communicate with the wounded child who is lost from himself and everything he knew. Through this experience of utter disintegration, Johansen comes to realize that self-identity is molded and sustained by stories. As Erik regains movement and consciousness, his parents, younger sister, doctors, therapists, educators, and friends all contribute to a web of language and narrative that gradually enables his body, mind, and feelings to make sense of their reacquired functions. Like those who know and love him, the young man feels intense grief and anger for the loss of the self he was before the accident, yet he is the first to see continuity where they see only change. The story is breathtaking, because we become involved in the pain and suspense and faith that accompany every birth. Medical and rehabilitation professionals, social workers, psychotherapists, students of narrative, and anyone who has faced life's trauma will find hope in this meditation on selfhood: out of the shambles of profound brain injury and coma can arise fruitful lives and deepened relationships. Keywords: narrative; selfhood; therapy; traumatic brain injury; healing; spirituality; family crisis; children

Bibliotherapy. --- Brain --- Narrative therapy. --- Parents of children with disabilities. --- Parents of handicapped children --- Children with disabilities --- Storytelling --- Psychotherapy --- Cerebrum --- Mind --- Central nervous system --- Head --- Books --- Books and reading --- Literature --- Reading --- Reading therapy --- Reading, Psychology of --- Wounds and injuries --- Patients --- Family relationships. --- Rehabilitation. --- Therapeutic use --- Johansen, Erik, --- Health. --- autobiography. --- biography. --- brain function. --- brain injury. --- brain. --- car crash. --- coma. --- concussion. --- consciousness. --- crisis. --- disability. --- faith. --- head injury. --- healing. --- healthcare. --- identity. --- language. --- literature. --- medical injuries. --- medicine. --- memoir. --- motor activity. --- narrative theory. --- narrative. --- nervous system. --- neuroscience. --- nonfiction. --- parenting. --- physical rehab. --- psychology. --- psychotherapy. --- religion. --- self identity. --- selfhood. --- spirituality. --- sports injuries. --- stories. --- storytelling. --- tbi. --- trauma. --- traumatic brain injury. --- vulnerability.

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This provocative study examines the role of today's Russian Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Russia has one of the fastest-growing rates of HIV infection in the world-80 percent from intravenous drug use-and the Church remains its only resource for fighting these diseases. Jarrett Zigon takes the reader into a Church-run treatment center where, along with self-transformational and religious approaches, he explores broader anthropological questions-of morality, ethics, what constitutes a "normal" life, and who defines it as such. Zigon argues that this rare Russian partnership between sacred and political power carries unintended consequences: even as the Church condemns the influence of globalization as the root of the problem it seeks to combat, its programs are cultivating citizen-subjects ready for self-governance and responsibility, and better attuned to a world the Church ultimately opposes.

Church and social problems --- Social values --- Drug addicts --- AIDS (Disease) --- HIV infections --- Rehabilitation --- Religious aspects --- Orthodox Eastern Church. --- Prevention --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ. --- Russia (Federation) --- Moral conditions. --- Social conditions --- aids treatment. --- aids. --- bible. --- blessings. --- catholicism. --- christianity. --- drug abuse. --- drugs. --- emotional control. --- ethics. --- ethnography. --- faith. --- healing. --- healthcare. --- hiv infection. --- hiv treatment. --- hiv. --- iv drug use. --- medicine. --- moral anthropology. --- morality and deviance. --- morality. --- neoliberalism. --- nonfiction. --- personal responsibility. --- redemption. --- rehab. --- religio. --- religion. --- religious treatment. --- russia. --- russian orthodox church. --- self control. --- self help. --- self improvement. --- social science. --- spirituality.