Bayer / Marks Uncharted

How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-55515-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Uncharted is a collection of powerful first-person stories by current and former scientists with disabilities or chronic conditions who have faced both successes and challenges because of their health.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bayer, Skylar

Marks, Gabriela Serrato

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Charting the Course, by Skylar Bayer and Gabi Serrato Marks
Part I. Getting Underway
1. Rolling to Freedom, by Mpho Kgoadi
2. Regaining Control, by Jenn Pickering
3. Changing Tides: What Does It Mean to Be Blind?, by Maureen J. Hayden
4. Dear Cassy, by Sami Chen
5. Sea Legs: Working Around Motion Sickness, by Amanda Heidt
Part II. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
6. A Safe Space, by Daisy Shearer
7. When Fieldwork Doesn’t Work: A Broken Bildungsroman, by Lauren A. White
8. Birds, Bees, and Anxieties, by Anonymous 1
9. My Brown Waterproof Boots, by Skylar Bayer
10. Hope Is My Anchor, by Furaha Asani
Part III. Rallying the Crew
11. The Place I Rest, by Alma C. Schrage
12. Sometimes It Doesn’t Get Better, but That’s OK, Too, by Alexander G. Steele
13. Christmas on Rangatira Island, by Sophie Fern
14. Living with a Rare Condition, by Sophie Okolo
15. Planning the Journey of a Lifetime, by Richard Wendell Mankin
Part IV. In the Heart of the Maelstrom
16. The Butt Balloon, by Anonymous 2
17. This Is Wallace Alfred Russel Simonis, by Juniper L. Simonis
18. The Day That Changed Everything, by Syreeta L. Nolan
19. Being the First and Only to Ask, by Amanda O’Brien
20. Lost in New Orleans, by Stephanie Schroeder
21. Ascending the Cinder Cone, by Divya M. Persaud
Part V. Reflections in the Water
22. Thinking Beyond the “Social Model of Disability,” by Glyn Everett
23. Suffer in Silence or Leave, by Emma Tung Corcoran
24. (In)Visibly Eroding Bones, Bodies, and Landscapes, by Leehi Yona
25. The Abyss, by Katie Harazin
26. Navigating the Curve, by Sunshine Menezes
27. Tidy Columns, by Olivia Bernard
Part VI. I Am the Captain of My Ship
28. Broader Impacts, by Jennifer L. Piatek
29. Doo hwil hóyéeda.: A Lesson Lost in Translation., by Taylor Francisco
30. The Ridge, by Gabi Serrato Marks
31. Who I Am, by Vincent Martin
32. The Best Place for My Hearing Aids Is on My Desk, by Michele Cooke
Conclusion: Aid to Navigation
Acknowledgments
Reflection and Discussion Questions
Further Reading and Resources
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Skylar Bayer is a marine ecologist and science communicator. Currently a marine habitat resource specialist in the NOAA Fisheries Alaska Regional Office, she received her PhD from the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences for research on the sex lives of scallops and is a producer for the Story Collider.

Gabi Serrato Marks is a geochemist turned writer. She received her PhD in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography and is now a partner at the scientist-focused PR firm Stellate Communications. Her work has been published in Scientific American and Audubon and on the PBS Eons YouTube Channel.