Health

This topic focuses on the ways women negotiate their physical and emotional well-being both in their personal and family lives and in relation to the public institutions that make up our health care system. It seeks to learn about how women view, care for, and project their bodies and minds introspectively and in relation to the outside world.

Ona Stewart

Craft Store Worker
I work at Gateway Crafts I do a lot of different activities there, pottery being one of them. They taught me through an interpreter how to do it and now I’m able to teach other people how to mold the clay up into beautiful pots, it’s so much fun. I also do some weaving of looms, fabric design, and just different things working in the craft store and I’ve worked there for a long time; almost 13 years, I just love it there.
Interviewer: 
Kelly Skeuse
Interview Date: 
Tue, 02/19/2008
Interview Focus: 
Health
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Kristen Pagliuca

Bank Manager

"You get to a point were if you are an implant candidate, you really just don’t have any hearing. They are really concerned when they decide to use an implant candidate. Because any residual hearing, they wipe it out. I knew I would do pretty well, just because I knew I was going to work hard and make sure I would do well. I was a little bit excited. I knew I would have better [hearing] than what I had."

Kristen Pagliuca was born May 27, 1975, in Massachusetts. She attended Emerson College and Suffolk University where she earned a master’s degree in Health Administration. Currently she is employed as a bank manager. In this interview she discusses growing with loss of hearing in a hearing family, going to school in mainstream classrooms, and the process of cochlear implants.

Interviewer: 
Lauren Spadaro
Interview Date: 
Thu, 03/15/2007
Interview Focus: 
Health
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Ann McCarron

Founder of Voices for Children, Bike Across America

"…but I still felt the effects of child abuse.  So what I ended up doing was putting together a project ten years ago called Bike Across America --  Voices for Children, Bike Across America. I went to Assumption College, to our administrators, and I asked them to support me for this cause. And I wanted to cycle across the country to break the silence of child sexual abuse.…… And also, other victims have come up to me for the first time and told me their story.  People have called me and told me about you know ‘my Grandfather just passed away and I’ve had this secret.  And now I can finally say something’.  And I encourage victims to go from being a victim to a victor in life."

Ann McCarron was born in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1963. Growing up in a very Irish Catholic family, Ann lived with her parents and three brothers in a part of Quincy called ‘Houghs Neck’. Ann grew up in a loving home but when she was 7 years old she was diagnosed with rheumatic fever. While in the hospital, trying to get better, she was sexually abused by her pediatrician. Ann kept the abuse secret until she was thirty-five years old. Since then she has dedicated her life to making people aware of child sexual abuse. Ann always has had a passion for sports.

Interviewer: 
Meredith Morris
Interview Date: 
Fri, 04/18/2008
Interview Focus: 
Health
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