Uncharted : : How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias / /

Uncharted : : How Scientists Navigate Their Own Health, Research, and Experiences of Bias / / / Skylar Bayer, Gabriela Serrato Marks.

People with disabilities are underrepresented in STEM fields, and all too often, they face isolation and ableism in academia. Uncharted is a collection of powerful first-person stories by current and former scientists with disabilities or chronic conditions who have faced changes in their careers, i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
VerfasserIn:
Bayer, Skylar,
Marks, Gabriela Serrato,
:
Marks, Gabriela Serrato,
Yona, Leehi,
MitwirkendeR:
Asani, Furaha,
Bayer, Skylar,
Bernard, Olivia,
Chen, Sami,
Cooke, Michele,
Everett, Glyn,
Fern, Sophie,
Francisco, Taylor,
Harazin, Katie,
Hayden, Maureen J.,
Heidt, Amanda,
Kgoadi, Mpho,
Marks, Gabriela Serrato,
Martin, Vincent,
Menezes, Sunshine,
Nolan, Syreeta L.,
Okolo, Sophie,
O'Brien, Amanda,
Persaud, Divya M.,
Piatek, Jennifer L.,
Pickering, Jenn,
Schrage, Alma C.,
Schroeder, Stephanie,
Serrato Marks, Gabi,
Shearer, Daisy,
Simonis, Juniper L.,
Steele, Alexander G.,
Tung Corcoran, Emma,
Wendell Mankin, Richard,
White, Lauren A.,
Yona, Leehi,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 31 images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction: Charting the Course
  • I GETTING UNDERWAY
  • Introduction
  • 1 Rolling to Freedom
  • 2 Regaining Control
  • 3 Changing Tides: What Does It Mean to Be Blind?
  • 4 Dear Cassy
  • 5 Sea Legs: Working Around Motion Sickness
  • II BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
  • Introduction
  • 6 A Safe Space
  • 7 When Fieldwork Doesn't Work: A Broken Bildungsroman
  • 8 Birds, Bees, and Anxieties
  • 9 My Brown Waterproof Boots
  • 10 Hope Is My Anchor
  • III RALLYING THE CREW
  • Introduction
  • 11 The Place I Rest
  • 12 Sometimes It Doesn't Get Better, but That's OK, Too
  • 13 Christmas on Rangatira Island
  • 14 Living with a Rare Condition
  • 15 Planning the Journey of a Lifetime
  • IV IN THE HEART OF THE MAELSTROM
  • Introduction
  • 16 The Butt Balloon
  • 17 This Is Wallace Alfred Russel Simonis
  • 18 The Day That Changed Everything
  • 19 Being the First and Only to Ask
  • 20 Lost in New Orleans
  • 21 Ascending the Cinder Cone
  • V REFLECTIONS IN THE WATER
  • Introduction
  • 22 Thinking Beyond the "Social Model of Disability"
  • 23 Suffer in Silence or Leave
  • 24 (In)Visibly Eroding Bones, Bodies, and Landscapes
  • 25 The Abyss
  • 26 Navigating the Curve
  • 27 Tidy Columns
  • VI I AM THE CAPTAIN OF MY SHIP
  • Introduction
  • 28 Broader Impacts
  • 29 Doo hwił hóyéeda . . . A Lesson Lost in Translation . . .
  • 30 The Ridge
  • 31 Who I Am
  • 32 The Best Place for My Hearing Aids Is on My Desk
  • Conclusion: Aid to Navigation
  • Acknowledgments
  • Reflection and Discussion Questions
  • Further Reading and Resources
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • About the Contributors

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