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eBook Highlight: Graphic Medicine Manifesto

06/01/2023
Sadie Davenport
Title: Graphic Medicine Manifesto.
Published: 2015. 
Available: as an eBook in Academic eBook Collection.
 
Description: "This inaugural volume in the graphic medicine series establishes the principles of graphic medicine and begins to map the field. The volume combines scholarly essays by members of the editorial team with previously unpublished visual narratives by Ian Williams and MK Czerwiec, and it includes arresting visual work from a wide range of graphic medicine practitioners. The book's first section, featuring essays by Scott Smith and Susan Squier, argues that as a new area of scholarship, research on graphic medicine has the potential to challenge the conventional boundaries of academic disciplines, raise questions about their foundations, and reinvigorate literary scholarship—and the notion of the literary text—for a broader audience. The second section, incorporating essays by Michael Green and Kimberly Myers, demonstrates that graphic medicine narratives can engage members of the health professions with literary and visual representations and symbolic practices that offer patients, family members, physicians, and other caregivers new ways to experience and work with the complex challenges of the medical experience. The final section, by Ian Williams and MK Czerwiec, focuses on the practice of creating graphic narratives, iconography, drawing as a social practice, and the nature of comics as visual rhetoric. A conclusion (in comics form) testifies to the diverse and growing graphic medicine community. Two valuable bibliographies guide readers to comics and scholarly works relevant to the field."

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Sadie Davenport
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Title: Success After Tenure: Supporting Mid-Career Faculty. 

Author: Vicki L. Baker, Laura Gail Lunsford, Gretchen Neisler, Meghan J. Pifer, & Aimee LaPointe Terosky. 

Publication info: First edition. New York : Routledge. 2023. 

Description: "This book brings together leading practitioners and scholars engaged in professional development programming for and research on mid-career faculty members. The chapters focus on key areas of career development and advancement that can enhance both individual growth and institutional change to better support mid-career faculties.The mid-career stage is the longest segment of the faculty career and it contains the largest cohort of faculty. Also, mid-career faculty are tasked with being the next generation of faculty leaders and mentors on their respective campuses, with little to no supports to do so effectively, at a time when higher education continues to face unprecedented challenges while managing continued goal of diversifying both the student and faculty bodies.The stories, examples, data, and resources shared in this book will provide inspiration--and reality checks--to the administrators, faculty developers, and department chairs charged with better supporting their faculties as they engage in academic work. Current and prospective faculty members will learn about trends in mid-career faculty development resources, see examples of how to create such supports when they are lacking on their campuses, and gain insights on how to strategically advance their own careers based on the realities of the professoriate.The book features a variety of institution types: community colleges, regional/comprehensive institutions, liberal arts colleges, public research universities, ivy league institutions, international institutions, and those with targeted missions such as HSI/MSI and Jesuit.Topics include faculty development for formal and informal leadership roles; strategies to support professional growth, renewal, time and people management; teaching and learning as a form of scholarship; the role of learning communities and networks as a source of support and professional revitalization; global engagement to support scholarship and teaching; strategies to recruit, retain, and promote underrepresented faculty populations; the policy-practice connection; and gender differences related to key mid-career outcomes.While the authors acknowledge that the challenges facing the mid-career stage are numerous and varying, they offer a counter narrative by looking at ways that faculty and/or institutions can assert themselves to find opportunities within challenging contexts. They suggest that these challenges highlight priority mentoring areas, and support the creation of new and innovative faculty development supports at institutional, departmental, and individual levels."

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Polidori: Doctor & Vampire Fiction Writer
08/24/2023
Sadie Davenport
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Left: John William Polidori. Right: A copy of The Vampyre, for which Lord Byron was falsely given credit. Polidori is now recognized as the author of The Vampyre. 

Happy birthday, Dr. John William Polidori! In 1816, Polidori became Lord Byron's personal physician. The two became friends with Mary Shelley and her husband Percy, and the group began writing macabre, horror stories. Mary Shelley's "The Monster" remains famous and iconic today. One of Byron's short stories became the basis of Polidori's longer book, The Vampyre. For years, authorship of this book was incorrectly attributed to Byron, who tried to correct the mistake and publish his own stories. 

You can read The Vampyre online for free through Project Gutenberg! Yay, internet! 

 

 

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The "one gene--one enzyme" hypothesis
12/14/2022
Sadie Davenport
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In 1958, George Beadle and Edward Tatum won the Nobel Prize for their study on the relationship between genes and enzymes. They proved through the mutation of Neurospora (a bread mold) that individual genes control specific enzymes. This has been summarized as the "one gene--one enzyme" hypothesis, which is now considered too simplified to accurately depict the relationship between genes and enzymes. However, this hypothesis is remembered as the link connecting two important disciplines: genetics and biochemistry. 

 

 

The experiment:

1) Beadle and Tatum grew Neurospora cells in test tubes with a "complete medium."

2) Then they exposed the Neurospora cells to X-rays and placed them in new tubes under the same conditions. 

3) They waited for the cells to divide and grow. 

4) They transferred some of the cells to a "minimal medium" with a nutrient base of sugar, salts, and biotin. 

5) They observed which cells lived and which died. (This meant that some cells couldn't break down the nutrients in the test tube.)

5) They further tested for different metabolic mutations and, with a lot of experiment repetition, found a different gene mutation connected to each metabolic mutation.

There's a lot more to this experiment, so be sure to check out the additional resources below! 

(Diagram from Khan Academy.) 

Read more about the "one gene, one enzyme" hypothesis: 

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