Deshae Lott

determined sojourner

Health care publications and presentations

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Deshae's health care publications

Call Me a ‘Good Cripple’ — If You Must:  Is educating others really so unfair and tiresome?” in Quest 17.3 (Summer 2010); 69-70.

"No Way Out but In: Responding Positively to Chaos with Forgiveness and Grief" in Ventilator-Assisted Living 23.3 (Fall 2009): 4-5.

Augmented Spirit: Extreme Embodiment” with Katerie Gladdys; spoken presentation accompanied by digital sculpture/installation; MOBILE/IMMOBILIZED: Art, Technologies & (Dis)abilities Colloquium in Montréal, Nov. 2, 2007.

"Augmented Spirit/Extreme Embodiment: a Landscape, Mapped of Vent Life" with Katerie Gladdys; Interactive Textiles IV: Embodiment and Location; International Symposium on Electronic Art at the University of Ulster, Belfast Campus, Aug. 28, 2009.

“Augmented Spirit/Extreme Embodiment a Landscape, Mapped, of Vent Life” with Katerie Gladdys; Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture Program during the John Douglas Taylor Conference at McMaster University, November 2010. 

Related Exhibits:

"Augmented Spirit/Necessary Machines: Sonic Map of the Interior Landscape of Ventilator-Dependent Individual Model and Prototype for Interactive Installation", Medium--Interactive Digital Audio Sculpture; University of Florida Faculty Show, August 2007.

"Augmented Spirit:  Extreme Embodiment", Medium--Interactive Digital Audio Sculpture; Exhibition --Myth of Difference; Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan; January 9-February 17, 2008.

“Augmented Spirit:  Extreme Embodiment” with Katerie Gladdys, Medium--Interactive Digital Audio Sculpture; Digital Art in a Post-Digital Age, Polk Museum of Art; May 24-September 7, 2008;
http://www.polkmuseumofart.org/content/interior.asp?section=exhibitions&body=2008/digitalart.htm

“Augmented Spirit: Extreme Embodiment” with Katerie Gladdys, Medium--Interactive Digital Audio Sculpture; Merge Visual, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia, September 12-November 2, 2008.

"IVUN Joins Those Studying Sexual Activity and Chronic Illness." Disability and IllnessRediscovering Sex After Disability/Illness/Trauma: 44 pars. The Sexual Health Network. Ed. Kelly J. Ace. 24 Apr. 2007. <www.sexualhealth.com at http://www.sexualhealth.com/article/read/467/>.

Related presentation:

“Mechanical Ventilation Users: Frequencies and Kinds of Sexual Activity” with Kelly J. Ace and Jeffrey D. Sadow; The Soul of Sexuality: Exploring the Depth and Dimensions of Pleasure Conference held by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists in Charlotte, North Carolina, June 2007.

Long-Term Mechanical Ventilation Users' Sexual Activity: An Exploration” in Ventilator-Assisted Living 20.4 (Winter 2006): 4-9.

Related presentation:

“Long Term Mechanical Ventilation, Quality of Life, and Intimacy,” research results from my article presented by Angela King, BS, RPFT, RRT-NPS & Sr. Clinical Director at VIASYS/Pulmonetic Systems, at the Alabama State Respiratory Care Meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, September 22, 2006.

His Choice: My Life” in Ventilator-Assisted Living 19.3 (Fall 2005): 6, 10.

From Where I Sit:  Medicaid Reform Must Come Now for People with Severe Disabilities” in Quest 12.5 (September-October 2005):  77-78.

Inspiration for Self” in Quest 12.3 (May-June 2005):  40.