Barbara A. Wilson

Reaching for Fulfilment as a Woman in Science (eBook, ePUB)

Further Stories of a Clinical Neuropsychologist

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This vivid memoir presents adventures from the life of Barbara A.Wilson, an internationally honoured scientist who played an influential role in the development of neuropsychological rehabilitation at a time when the scientific field was dominated by men.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000342239
• Artikelnr.: 61326608

Autorenporträt

Barbara A. Wilson has worked in brain injury rehabilitation for over 42 years. She founded the Oliver Zangwill Centre and the journal Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. She has won many awards including an OBE for services to rehabilitation. She is a Fellow of The British Psychological Society, The Academy of Medical Sciences and The Academy of Social Sciences, and honorary professor at the University of Hong Kong, the University of Sydney and the University of East Anglia.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Further Childhood Memories
Chapter Two: Early Years of Marriage
Chapter Three: Women in Science
Chapter Four: My First Job as a Qualified Clinical Psychologist
Chapter Five: Work Trips to Australia, Japan, Brazil and India
Chapter Six: Jordan, my last trip with Sarah
Chapter Seven: Present Time: Brexit and the Coronavirus; and a look back to
early marriage when we lived in Suffolk and Essex and neuropsychology was
not even thought of
Chapter Eight: My first day at Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre
Chapter Nine: The disaster in the USA - 9/11 and memories of earlier times
when we visited New York
Chapter Ten: Links with Chile
Chapter Eleven: Travels in Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, Mali and Namibia
Chapter Twelve: More on work trips to Greece, Italy and Spain
Chapter Thirteen: Other work trips to Cuba, New Zealand, Argentina and
South Africa
Chapter Fourteen: Learning from Patients
Chapter Fifteen: Brexit and Irish citizenship
Chapter Sixteen Coping with bereavement twenty years on
Chapter Seventeen: Life today, Lock down, walks round Bury St Edmunds;
Black lives matter
Chapter Eighteen: Current work and interests
Chapter Nineteen: The Neuropsychological Consequences of Covid-19
Chapter Twenty: Final thoughts