| Contents |
Rolling to freedom / Mpho Kgoadi -- Regaining control / Jenn Pickering -- Changing tides : what does it mean to be blind? / Maureen J. Hayden -- Dear Cassy / Sami Chen -- Sea legs : working around motion sickness / Amanda Heidt -- A safe space / Daisy Shearer -- When fieldwork doesn't work : a broken Bildungsroman / Lauren A. White -- Birds, bees, and anxieties / Anonymous 1 -- My brown waterproof boots / Skylar Bayer -- Hope is my anchor / Furaha Asani -- The place I rest / Alma C. Schrage -- Sometimes it doesn't get better, but that's OK, too / Alexander G. Steele -- Christmas on Rangatira Island / Sophie Fern -- Living with a rare condition / Sophie Anwuli Okolo -- Planning the journey of a lifetime / Richard Wendell Mankin -- The butt balloon / Anonymous 2 -- This is Wallace Alfred Russel Simonis / Juniper Simonis -- The day that changed everything / Syreeta L. Nolan -- Being the first and only to ask / Amanda O'Brien -- Lost in New Orleans / Stephanie Schroeder -- Ascending the cinder cone / Divya Persaud -- Thinking beyond the "social model of disability" / Glyn Everett -- Suffer in silence, or leave / Emma Tung Corcoran -- (In)visibly eroding bones, bodies, and landscapes / Leehi Yona -- The abyss / Katie Harazin -- Navigating the curve / Sunshine Menezes -- Tidy columns / Olivia Bernard -- Broader impacts / Jennifer L. Piatek -- Doo hwił hóyéeda . . . : a lesson lost in translation / Taylor Francisco -- The ridge / Gabi Serrato Marks -- Who I am / Vincent Martin -- The best place for my hearing aids is on my desk / Michele Cooke -- Conclusion : aid to navigation. |
| Abstract |
"Uncharted highlights the experiences of scientists with disabilities or chronic health conditions who have faced changes to their careers, including both successes and challenges, because of their health. It is not a review of the science of health conditions: instead, it is a collection of personal perspectives and views shared by the people behind the science. It shares not only health challenges, but the joys, sorrows, humor, and wonder from people who love science-no matter how many barriers they have to face. These stories don't reduce people to "overcoming" their disabilities in order to be successful; the scientists are thriving (or struggling) alongside their conditions. Edited by two scientists with chronic health conditions themselves, these stories showcase a wide variety of disabilities, experiences, and emotions. Each contains a true story written from the first-person perspective. Representation includes a field biologist who is deaf, an immunologist who has debilitating anxiety and OCD, a marine scientist living (and sometimes attending conferences) with MS, an entomologist with a muscle condition who's been conducting field work for 40 years, an environmental scientist who's survived two cancer diagnoses, and several others. The main target audience for the book is scientists (both professionals and those in training), especially those who do field work and/or struggle with medical and disability issues of their own. These readers will seek it out when they wonder, as these editors and contributors have, whether someone can be both sick and a successful scientist.""-- Provided by publisher. |
