1998 - Book 'After the death of a child'

Refusing to fall back on pop jargon about “recovery” or to offer easy solutions or standardized timelines, Finkbeiner’s is a genuine and moving search to come to terms with loss. Her complex profiles of parents resonate with the honesty and authenticity of uncomfortable emotions expressed and, most importantly, shared with others experiencing a similar loss. Finally, each profile exemplifies the many heroic ways parents learn to live with their pain, and by so doing, honor the lives their children should have lived, the book was prompted by the death of her son & her own reactions; co-proprietor of a science-ish blog, The Last Word on Nothing; her blog comments on what she wasn't going to write about when writing about women scientists inspired Christie Aschwanden to formalize the items & create The Finkbeiner Test a checklist to help science journalists avoid gender bias in articles about women in science-it asks writers to avoid describing women scientists in terms of stereotypically feminine traits, such as their family arrangements;.

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Journalism - Science Writing

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