ICYMI: New & Notable Articles (27 May 2024)

HOPKINS PRESS PODCAST: Helene Hedian on Building Patient-Centered Trans Health Care

On this month's Hopkins Press Podcast, we talk with Helene Hedian, MD,  Director of Clinical Education, Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health, discussing data in a new study published in the February 2024 edition of Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved,"What Patients Want in a Transgender Center:Building a Patient-Centered Program."

Dr. Helene Hedian is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Director of Clinical Education at the Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health, and the Assistant Vice Chair for LGBTQ+ Equity and Education in the Department of Medicine. Her academic interests include internal medicine, medical education, and the specific health needs of LGBTQ patients. 

For further reading, see “What Patients Want in a Transgender Center:Building a Patient-Centered Program” for free in Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved  through 30 June 2024
 

What Patients Want in a Transgender Center: Building a Patient-Centered Program

Helene F. Hedian, MD, Paula M. Neira, MSN, JD, RN, CEN, Devin Coon, MD, MSE, Joshua Schwarz, PhD, Joseph Cofrancesco Jr, MD, MPH, and Brandyn D. Lau, MPH 

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
Volume 35, Number 1, February 2024

As featured in the Hopkins Press Podcast, Helene Hedian and her colleagues discuss the findings of a 2016 study that shares how Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health assessed patients' perceptions of health care organizations that provide gender-affirming care.

Read free in Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved thru 30 June
 

Transgender Men and Non-Binary Students Managing Their Identities to Pay for College

Alex C. Lange

Review of Higher Education
Ahead of print, 2024

Compared to previous generations, U.S. college students must increasingly rely on non-government sources of money to pay for college. Yet, paying for college looks markedly different for students from marginalized communities, given historical exclusion and inequitable access to financial capital. 

Using data from a longitudinal study of transgender men and non-binary students, this study argues that identity management is a key tactic these students use to pay for college and navigate competing financial priorities. Ultimately, this study can help researchers and policymakers better address issues of affordability, while more clearly understanding the unique nature of identity management for transgender students.

Read free in Review of Higher Education thru 30 June
 

Identifying White Mediocrity and Know-Your-Place Aggression: A Form of Self-Care

Koritha Mitchell

African American Review
Volume 51, Number 4, Winter 2018

Koritha Mitchell explores what she calls “know-your-place aggression” in African American Review, now available to read free thru 14 June

Explore further with a new interview with Dr. Mitchell in Public Books.

Read “Making up Monsters, Redirecting Blame: An Examination of Excited Delirium” in the new issue of Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, free through 31 May. 

Read further with a pair of commentaries,"Excited Delirium: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Police Brutality" by Kathryn Petrozzo and "Excited Delirium: What’s Psychiatry Got to do With It?" by Paul B. Lieberman, MD, as well as the authors' response: "Excited Delirium: Falsifiability, Causality, and the Importance of Advocacy" — all freely available to all readers for the month of May.  
 

Fluid Bodies: Wet Nurses and Breastmilk Anxieties in Eighteenth-Century Madrid

Celia Crifasi

Journal of Women's History
Volume 35, Number 1, Spring 2023

Celia Crifasi’s “Fluid Bodies: Wet Nurses and Breastmilk Anxieties in 18th-Century Madrid” recently won the 2024 Barbara “Penny” Kanner Award from the Western Association of Women Historians

Centering the voices of women seeing employment as wet nurses in late 18th-century Madrid via ads they placed in newspapers, Crifasi reconsiders what we know about breastmilk and early modern bodies

Read free in Journal of Women's History thru 14 June
 

Child-Mothers and Invisible Fathers: The Paradox of "Precocious Maternity" and the Pervasiveness of Child Sexual Abuse in Nineteenth-Century America

Courtney E. Thompson

Journal of Women's History
Volume 34, Number 4, Winter 2022

Courtney Thompson’s “Child-Mothers and Invisible Fathers: The Paradox of ‘Precocious Maternity’ and the Pervasiveness of Child Sexual Abuse in Nineteenth-Century America” has won Nursing Clio’s Best Article Prize of 2023.

Thompson’s essay investigates the paradox of the "child-mother" to reveal the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and age in 19th century culture and medicine, the instability of the categories of childhood and adulthood, and the erasure of child sexual abuse in history,

Read free in Journal of Women's History thru 14 June
 

"To Measure is All We Know": William Carlos Williams and the Science of Measurement

Christian R. Gelder

Modernism/modernity
Volume 30, Number 3, September 2023

In order to appreciate William Carlos Williams' much-critiqued definition of “measure,” one must first understand how the science of measurement appeared in works by contemporaneous critics.

Read free in Modernism/modernity thru 31 May 
 

"One of the Grand Works of the World": Walt Whitman's Advocacy for the Brooklyn Waterworks, 1856–59

Stephanie M. Blalock, Kevin McMullen, Stefan Schöberlein, and Jason Stacy

Technology and Culture
Volume 65, Number 1, January 2024

Walt Whitman may be known as the “poet of America,” but fewer know about his contributions to bringing the Brooklyn Waterworks project out of obscurity through advocacy journalism.

Read more about his efforts in Technology and Culture, free thru 31 May. 
 

How and when will translation receive recognition for its crucial role in the academic ecosystem? 

Spanning the Hopkins Press blog & 9 articles in a new special issue of MLN, it's a lively and thoughtful 10-scholar forum, open access for a year thru March 2025