Uncharted: how scientists navigate their own health, research, and experiences of bias

"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 pe...

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Weitere Verfasser: Bayer, Skylar (HerausgeberIn), Serrato Marks, Gabriela (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Columbia University Press [2023]
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Zusammenfassung:"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.""--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 315 pages) illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references
ISBN:0231555156
9780231555159

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