{"id":275,"date":"2017-09-04T19:01:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T19:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/?page_id=275"},"modified":"2018-05-31T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:17:12","slug":"christa-teston","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/profiles\/christa-teston\/","title":{"rendered":"Christa Teston"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ChristaTitle:\u00a0<\/strong>Associate Professor, English<\/p>\n

University:\u00a0<\/strong>Ohio State University<\/p>\n

Email:\u00a0<\/strong>teston.2@osu.edu<\/p>\n

Twitter:\u00a0<\/strong>christateston<\/p>\n

Website:\u00a0<\/strong>www.christateston.com<\/p>\n

Description of Work:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I study uncertainty in\u00a0<\/span>technoscientific<\/span>\u00a0and biomedical contexts. In particular, I’m curious about the evidential backstage\u2014or all the work that goes on behind the scenes when\u00a0<\/span><\/span>humans<\/span><\/span>\u00a0attempt to corral chaos. My book,\u202f<\/span><\/span>Bodies in Flux<\/span><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>was<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>recently released<\/span><\/span>\u00a0from University of Chicago Press.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Symposium Submission:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Surveying Precarious Publics<\/strong><\/p>\n

In order to gauge multiple publics\u2019 concerns and sense of self-efficacy amid possible changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), I, along with a team of researchers around the US, are in the early stages of a nationwide survey-based study. The goal of the study is to collate responses from multiple publics living in the US who will be affected by changes to the ACA. Participants\u2019 responses will provide evidence for claims about healthcare consumers\u2019 anxieties, needs, and expectations. These findings will then be used to design helpful resources for navigating healthcare complexities should the US Government enact changes to the ACA. Since survey results will not be available until the end of Summer 2017, for the purpose of the RHM Symposium, I focus my efforts on a manuscript about strategies for effective survey design when surveying multiple, often precarious publics.<\/p>\n

While there exists a good deal of resources for effective survey design for qualitative and\/or health researchers, the critical intervention this manuscript will make is more specific guidance for designing surveys intended for participants who may identify as one or more of the following: economically disadvantaged; disabled; drug addicted; undocumented; and XXX. We know that among those who stand to lose coverage, should the ACA be repealed, \u201c81%…would be in working families; 66% would have a high school education or less; 40% would be young adults; and about 50% would be non-Hispanic whites\u201d (Buettgens et al. 2016).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m interested in unearthing the difficulties associated with surveying precarious publics\u2014or persons whose networks of social support are weak, if not altogether absent. Complexities associated with survey design for precarious publics have thus far included questions about,<\/p>\n