ICYMI: New & Notable Articles 14.10.2024

The transnational activities of poet/journalist Lü Bicheng were transformative to Buddhist vegetarian practices in the increasingly globalized religious sphere of the early 20th century

Read free in Twentieth-Century China thru 26 October 

New in Journal of Jewish Identities, Brian Hillman reads E. Lockhart's graphic novel Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero as promoting nostalgia and the pursuit of social justice as components of American Jewishness

Read free thru 26 Oct

“We are not American" Still — the theme of American Quarterly’s final special issue from their Hawai’i based editorial team — echoes the cry of indigenous scholar and activist Haunani-Kay Trask

Read the title essay free on Project MUSE thru 19 October 

Kate Crassons explores ways literature enables the work of neurodiversity, drawing connections between modern autism intervention Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) and medieval personification allegory

Read free in Literature and Medicine thru 19 October

The Ale-Quillén myth illuminates the shifting narratives about Chile's Indigenous Mapuche people established in 19c. Chilean and Anglo-Chilean print culture and persisting today

Read Michelle Prain-Brice and Jennifer Hayward’s essay in Victorian Periodicals Review free thru 19 Oct

Also in Victorian Periodicals Review, Lars Atkin offers an on-going research resource:
“Bibliography of Open-Access Databases of Newspapers and Periodicals Beyond Europe and North America”

Access free on Project MUSE thru 19 October 

19th century physicians and prohibitionists alike struggled with defining “compulsive drinking” after an 1811 discovery revealed that alcohol possessed the power to destroy the physical capacity for the power of choice

Read free in Bulletin of the History of Medicine thru 19 October 

Moral diversity and centrality of conscience to medical practice may benefit trainees and patients in important ways, not unlike the benefits seen from implementing DEI initiatives, suggest Benjamin W. Frush and Kristin M. Collier

Read free in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine thru 19 October 

A recent commentary in Science Magazine looks at the history of GLP-1 research and the challenges of bringing these therapies to market, citing a recent article from Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/missing-out-glp-1

You can read Jeffrey S. Flier’s “Drug Development Failure: How GLP-1 Development Was Abandoned in 1990” in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine for free on Project MUSE right now!