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Voting in the Reconstruction Novel: Black Suffrage, Election-Day Violence, and the Regulation of the Vote
Authors: Donnelly Andrew 
Published: February 2023

AbstractHow did fiction respond to the expansions of democracy during the Reconstruction period? This article provides a survey of Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction novels that include scenes of Black electoral participation. Such scenes of voting are also scenes of violence, either threatened or realized, and represent a range of political views. The article explores how novels use such scenes to advocate radical protections of Black voting rights, white supremacist restrictions on Black suffrage, and liberal policies of nonintervention in elections. A set of post-Reconstruction writers asserted a position as expressly moderate between the latter two: that Black political participation must be regulated. These novels pair the threat of Black voting with the civic emergencies of floods and other natural disasters in order to make the regulation of voting rights as necessary for survival as the management of a rising river. This view, positioned as a compromise between the rights provided by the Fifteenth Amendment and the fears of white reactionaries, was shared, alongside similar water metaphors, in the consequential decisions on voting rights by the period’s Supreme Court. This article shows the range of novelistic responses in the wake of the Fifteenth Amendment and the shaping of a self-consciously moderate stance that ultimately supported the national policy of Black disenfranchisement.Liberals [could] square voting regulations with their belief in laissez-faire government . . . by treating electoral reform like the management of natural phenomena, a science of managing threats as in the linked rising tides of river and Black politics in [the period’s novels].
Chicanx Counterstories: Legal Narrative in Oscar Zeta Acosta’sThe Revolt of the Cockroach People
Authors: de la Garza Valenzuela José A 
Published: February 2023

AbstractOscar Zeta Acosta’s The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973) offers a fictional dramatization of two of the Chicano Movement’s most defining historical moments: the LA student walkouts and the death of Ruben Salazar, a Chicano journalist. This essay analyzes how Acosta’s narrator and stand-in, Buffalo Zeta Brown, contests the criminalizing legal narratives about Chicanxs produced by courts in the aftermath of both events. As Brown navigates the legal networks that criminalize Chicanxs, he builds a narrative infrastructure that shapes counterstories of the community that are later dismantled when the courts attempt to violently neutralize the Chicano Movement’s early legal victories following the death of Roland Zanzibar, a stand-in for Salazar. The essay argues, analyzing Brown’s attempts to tell stories about Chicanxs in the courts and a candidate for public office, that the state insists on authoring the preconditions of Chicanx democratic participation in ways that betray the experiences of the protesters who inspire Acosta’s militants. Acosta illustrates how democratic participation only comes at the expense of authorship and underscores how, when democracy is in crisis, the novel serves as a flexible outlet for counterstories never authorized as fact by institutions charged with safeguarding the state’s monopoly on legal narrative.When the story [Brown] seeks to tell about Chicanxs conflicts with the stock narratives that the courts and their auxiliary bodies favor, authorship is revealed to be the cost of democratic participation.
Democratic Realism, National Allegory, and the Future of the Asian American Novel
Authors: Fan Christopher T 
Published: February 2023

AbstractRecent fiction by Asian Americans grapples with, on the one hand, the waning stakes and political failure of American identity (a democratic realism), and, on the other hand, the allure of Asia’s simultaneous capitalist challenge and alternative to US-based racial form (a capitalist realism). This article argues that the tensions and contradictions of this conjuncture are registered in recent Asian American novels via national allegory and reads the aesthetic partition between comedy and tragedy in Marie Myung-ok Lee’s 2022 novel The Evening Hero as exemplary of this formal approach.If the transnational turn promised a way out of US democratic realism and the dominance of its ethnographic imperative, then how have recent Asian American novels registered the process of turning to Asia and away from America?
Bad Faith and the American Indian: Laura Cornelius Kellogg and the Problem of Democratic Inclusion
Authors: Manshel Hannah 
Published: February 2023

AbstractOneida writer and activist Laura Cornelius Kellogg’s 1920 hybrid text Our Democracy and the American Indian strategically uses US settler legal concepts, such as private property, to critique the US government’s hypocrisy in its unjust treatment of Native people. It appeals for sovereignty in a mode that turns these same unjust methods and tools against their government uses. Kellogg uses her treatise to show that not only has Congress acted in bad faith toward Native people, but that this bad faith can be turned back on the government and used to further Indigenous self-governance. Instead of completely rejecting private property ownership—the form of land relation the US government either excluded Native people from or granted them limited access to—Kellogg embraces it and adapts it for collective Native interests. This article reads Kellogg’s text alongside contemporary legal cases around Oneida sovereignty to show ongoing colonialism forces Indigenous peoples to draw on Anglo-American legal forms not to assimilate, but rather to survive. It suggests that state-recognized forms of Native sovereignty may be accessed only temporarily, and then through acts of bad faith strategy, in which the letter of the law is used to ends counter to the law’s ostensible intention.[Laura Cornelius] Kellogg uses her treatise to show that not only has Congress acted in bad faith toward Native people, but . . . that this bad faith can be turned back on the [US] government . . . to further Indigenous self-governance.
Secrecy and Democracy
Authors: Potolsky Matthew 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThis essay reviews five books that challenge established modern assumptions about the nature and necessity of privacy, transparency, and the secret, and, in doing so, raise more general questions about the longstanding belief in the Enlightenment tradition that secrecy is a tool of conspiracy and therefore inimical to democracy.At a moment when old assumptions about privacy and transparency are falling away, perhaps it is time, these books imply, to think about the positive value of secret-keeping.
Freedom by the Book: Novels and the Future of Liberal Democracy
Authors: Fraser Gordon 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThe scholars included in this special issue of ALH reveal not an ideology but a method—a method that depends upon the novel. Many of the scholars here suggest that by reading novels—and, in particular, by reading them well—we might extend the horizon of democratic possibility. The present essay agrees. Indeed, it suggests that novels extend the horizon of democratic possibility in three important ways: by enabling readers to think deeply about the relationship between incommensurate goods; by accounting for the role of emotion in shaping values; and by enabling readers to process and react to the inevitability of change. Ultimately, this essay suggests that novels have a role to play in fostering democratic values.As free people, we make choices about the individual and collective direction of our lives. And, in deciding, we need the examples and stories of others. We need, in other words, stories about lives lived meaningfully or unmeaningfully, with dignity or without it.
Patient Preferences and Perceptions Concerning Aesthetic Providers and Social Media
Authors: Murphrey Morgan , Dayan Steven , Aguilera Shino Bay , Fabi Sabrina 
Published: February 2023

Abstract

Background
With the rise of social media, aesthetic providers have established a presence on social media. However, there has been little research to evaluate how patients perceive these aesthetic providers and what they desire to see on their professional accounts.

Objectives
This study aimed to evaluate the social media preferences and perceptions of patients who undergo aesthetic procedures.

Methods
A survey was sent to a random sample of US individuals; 651 (32%) identified that they underwent aesthetic procedures. Descriptive statistics were utilized to analyze participants and groups were compared with chi-square analyses.

Results
Our sample had a majority of females (57% female, 43% male). An aesthetic medical provider's social media presence had a positive impact on 41% of respondents; a minority of respondents (9%) preferred no social media presence. Fifty-five percent of respondents indicated they would prefer to see a provider with a blue checkmark. With regard to content published, 70% of respondents found it important that a provider show before and after photographs. One-third of respondents indicated they would prefer not to see personal content (n = 236, 36%).

Conclusions
A social media presence is not a strict requirement for success, but 41% of respondents reported a social media presence positively impacted their desire to see the provider as a patient. Patients preferred certain characteristics, such as verification and before and after photographs. Aesthetic providers should take care when determining what content to publish to their social accounts and should consider focusing on educational, promotional, and family/interpersonal content.
Real-World Experience With Collagenase Clostridium Histolyticum-aaes for Buttock and Thigh Cellulite: Focus on Administration and Safety Profile
Authors: Shridharani Sachin M , Kennedy MacKenzie L 
Published: February 2023

Abstract

Background
Collagenase clostridium histolyticum-aaes (CCH-aaes) is approved for the treatment of moderate-to-severe buttock cellulite in adult women.

Objectives
To report on real-world experience with CCH-aaes in the treatment of buttock and thigh cellulite.

Methods
Retrospective analysis of medical records from a single treatment center.

Results
The population comprised 28 consecutively treated women; mean age was 40.5 years (range, 23-56 years) and mean body mass index was 25.9 kg/m2 (range, 19.6-41.0 kg/m2). Treatment areas were buttocks only (78.6% of patients), thighs only (10.7%), or both buttocks and thighs (10.7%). Most patients (89.3%) were treated in 2 areas (buttocks or thighs) at each visit; however, 3 patients were treated in 4 areas. At each session, the CCH-aaes dose was 0.07 mg per dimple (0.3 mL of 0.23 mg/mL for buttock cellulite; 1.5 mL of 0.046 mg/mL for thigh cellulite). The mean number of treatment sessions was 2.6 (range, 1-4) for buttock cellulite and 2.5 (range 1-3) for thigh cellulite. The mean number of dimples treated was 11.5 (range, 3-17) per buttock, 11.0 (range, 1-14) per thigh, and 23.4 (range, 8-32) overall per treatment session. Injection site–related adverse events of special interest were experienced by all 28 patients: bruising (100%), edema (96.4%), tenderness (85.7%), nodules (39.3%), pruritus (32.1%), and hyperpigmentation indicative of hemosiderin staining (7.1%). Mean duration of injection-site bruising was 8.8 days (range, 2-15 days).

Conclusions
CCH-aaes is an effective, well-tolerated, minimally invasive treatment option for buttock and thigh cellulite in women.

Level of Evidence: 3
Prognosis after hepatic resection of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma related to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: meta-analysis
Authors: Su Jia-Yong , Deng Zhu-Jian , Teng Yu-Xian , Koh Ye Xin , Zhang Wan-Guang , Zheng Ming-Hua , Xie Si , Huo Rong-Rui , Chen Chao-Jing , Ma Liang , Zhong Jian-Hong 
Published: February 2023

Abstract

Background
Whether the safety and efficacy of hepatic resection differ between patients whose hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is related to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) or has other aetiologies is unknown. A systematic review was performed to explore potential differences between such conditions.

Methods
PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library were systematically searched for relevant studies that reported hazard ratios (HRs) for overall and recurrence-free survival between patients with NAFLD-related HCC or HCC of other aetiologies.

Results
The meta-analysis involved 17 retrospective studies involving 2470 patients (21.5 per cent) with NAFLD-related HCC and 9007 (78.5 per cent) with HCC of other aetiologies. Patients with NAFLD-related HCC were older and had higher body mass index (BMI), but were less likely to have cirrhosis (50.4 per cent versus 64.0 per cent, P &lt; 0.001). The two groups suffered similar rates of perioperative complications and mortality. Patients with NAFLD-related HCC had slightly higher overall survival (HR 0.87, 95 per cent c.i. 0.75 to 1.02) and recurrence-free survival (HR 0.93, 95 per cent c.i. 0.84 to 1.02) than those with HCC of other aetiologies. In the various subgroup analyses, the only significant finding was that Asian patients with NAFLD-related HCC had significantly better overall survival (HR 0.82, 95 per cent c.i. 0.71 to 0.95) and recurrence-free survival (HR 0.88, 95 per cent c.i. 0.79 to 0.98) than Asian patients with HCC of other aetiologies.

Conclusion
The available evidence suggests that patients with NAFLD-related HCC have similar perioperative complications and mortality, but potentially longer overall and recurrence-free survival, compared with those with HCC of other aetiologies. Tailored surveillance strategies should be developed for patients with NAFLD without cirrhosis.
Hybrid Working: Is It Working… and at What Cost? Exploring the Experience of Managers in Child Protection: Social Work
Authors: Daley Esme 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
This study used thematic analysis to consider eight UK child protection social work (CPSW) managers’ experience of hybrid working. Adair’s Action Centred Leadership (task, individual, team) (1967) was used as a framework to consider how managers lead teams through changes in working arrangements as hybrid working practices have become normalised. The themes identified included (i) Task: ease of moving work online, manager perceptions of the impact on quality of work, the experience of professional and organisational approaches; (ii) Individual: social worker well-being, tension about being available versus capacity to focus, impact on work/home boundaries; and (iii) Team: the importance of connecting, modelling practice and ease of communication. Findings suggest that hybrid arrangements were implemented as a result of organisational and logistic priorities, rather than to benefit children and families or the workforce. Though much of the task of CPSW has returned to being delivered as before COVID-19, and individual worker needs have been somewhat considered, the team as a unit to support and contain the worker has been largely neglected through the advancement of existing neoliberal and managerial policies under the pretext of COVID-19 measures. To counteract the negative impact of hybrid working arrangements, future policy focus must be on building strong teams.
Coronary CT angiography-derived plaque characteristics and physiologic patterns for peri-procedural myocardial infarction and subsequent events
Authors: Dai Neng , Chen Zhangwei , Zhou Fan , Zhou You , Hu Nan , Duan Shaofeng , Wang Wei , Zhang Longjiang , Qian Juying , Ge Junbo 
Published: February 2023

Abstract

Aims
Peri-procedural myocardial infarction (PMI) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has been shown to be associated with worse clinical outcomes. We aimed to investigate the value of coronary plaque characteristics and physiologic disease patterns (focal vs. diffuse) assessed by coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) in predicting PMI and adverse events.

Methods and results
Three hundred fifty-nine patients with normal pre-PCI high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) underwent CTA before PCI were analysed. The high-risk plaque characteristics (HRPC) were assessed on CTA. The physiologic disease pattern was characterized using CTA fractional flow reserve-derived pullback pressure gradients (FFRCT PPG). PMI was defined as an increase in hs-cTnT to &gt;5 times the upper limit of normal after PCI. The major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) were a composite of cardiac death, spontaneous myocardial infarction, and target vessel revascularization. The presence of ≥3 HRPC in the target lesions [odds ratio (OR) 2.21, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.29–3.80, P = 0.004] and low FFRCT PPG (OR 1.23, 95% CI 1.02–1.52, P = 0.028) were independent predictors of PMI. In a four-group classification according to HRPC and FFRCT PPG, patients with ≥3 HRPC and low FFRCT PPG had the highest risk of MACE (19.3%; overall P = 0.001). Moreover, the presence of ≥3 HRPC and low FFRCT PPG was an independent predictor of MACE and showed incremental prognostic value compared with a model with clinical risk factors alone [C index = 0.78 vs. 0.60, P = 0.005, net reclassification index = 0.21 (95% CI: 0.04–0.48), P = 0.020].

Conclusions
Coronary CTA can evaluate plaque characteristics and physiologic disease patterns simultaneously, which plays an important role for risk stratification before PCI.
Preoperative prognostic factors for 5-year survival following pulmonary metastasectomy from colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Gkikas Andreas , Kakos Christos , Lampridis Savvas , Godolphin Peter J , Patrini Davide 
Published: February 2023

AbstractOBJECTIVESWe seek to identify preoperative prognostic factors and measure their effect on 5-year survival following pulmonary metastasectomy (PM) for Colorectal Cancer (CRC).METHODSWe systematically reviewed the databases of Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, Embase and Google Scholar from January 2000 to April 2021 to identify preoperative factors that have been investigated for their prognostic effect on survival following PM. Quality assessment was performed using the QUIPS tool. The prognostic effect of each identified factor on 5-year survival post-PM was estimated using random-effects meta-analyses.RESULTSWe identified 115 eligible articles which included 13 294 patients who underwent PM from CRC. The overall 5-year survival after resection of the lung metastasis was 54.1%. The risk of bias of the included studies was at least moderate in 93% (107/115). Seventy-seven preoperative factors had been investigated for their prognostic effect. Our analysis showed that 11 factors had favourable and statistically significant prognostic effect on 5-year survival post-PM. These included solitary metastasis, size &lt;2 cm, unilateral location, N0 thoracic disease, no history of extra-thoracic or liver metastasis, normal carcinoembryonic antigen levels both before PM and CRC excision, no neo-adjuvant chemotherapy before PM, CRC T-stage &lt; T4 and no p53 mutations on CRC. Disease-free interval at 24 months did not appear to affect 5-year survival.CONCLUSIONSDespite the considerable risk of bias in the literature, our study consolidates the available evidence on preoperative prognostic factors for PM from CRC. These findings can complement both clinical practice and the design of future research on the field of PM.
Authorship as a determinant of art prices and auction settings in eighteenth-century Paris
Authors: Van Miegroet Hans J , Radermecker Anne-Sophie V 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
In the context of a booming art market in Paris, eighteenth-century art dealers began to exploit authorship as a value-enhancing strategy. Using Jean-Baptiste Pierre Lebrun’s business as a case study, we show that art dealers purposefully used a firm scale of authentication to create product differentiation and to boost auction dynamics and revenues by reordering the lots before the sale in leaflets known as feuilles de vacation. Our empirical findings support the hypothesis of the development of a market driven by the quest for the artist’s hand in pre-revolutionary Paris, with differential use of connoisseurial knowledge, depending on buyers’ profiles.
Impact of the EURO-PERISTAT Reports on obstetric management: a difference-in-regression-discontinuity analysis
Authors: Daalderop Leonie A , Been Jasper V , Steegers Eric A P , Bertens Loes C M 
Published: February 2023

AbstractBackgroundPopulation health monitoring, such as perinatal mortality and morbidity rankings published by the European Perinatal Health (EURO-PERISTAT) reports may influence obstetric care providers’ decision-making and professional behaviour. We investigated short-term changes in the obstetric management of singleton term deliveries in the Netherlands following publication of the EURO-PERISTAT reports in 2003, 2008 and 2013.MethodsWe used a quasi-experimental difference-in-regression-discontinuity approach. National perinatal registry data (2001–15) was used to compare obstetric management at delivery in four time windows (1, 2, 3 and 5 months) surrounding publication of each EURO-PERISTAT report.ResultsThe 2003 EURO-PERISTAT report was associated with higher relative risks (RRs) for an assisted vaginal delivery across all time windows [RR (95% CI): 1 month: 1.23 (1.05–1.45), 2 months: 1.15 (1.02–1.30), 3 months: 1.21 (1.09–1.33) and 5 months: 1.21 (1.11–1.31)]. The 2008 report was associated with lower RRs for an assisted vaginal delivery at the 3- and 5-month time windows [0.86 (0.77–0.96) and 0.88 (0.81–0.96)]. Publication of the 2013 report was associated with higher RRs for a planned caesarean section across all time windows [1 month: 1.23 (1.00–1.52), 2 months: 1.26 (1.09–1.45), 3 months: 1.26 (1.12–1.42) and 5 months: 1.19(1.09–1.31)] and lower RRs for an assisted vaginal delivery at the 2-, 3- and 5-month time windows [0.85 (0.73–0.98), 0.83 (0.74–0.94) and 0.88 (0.80–0.97)].ConclusionsThis study showed that quasi-experimental study designs, such as the difference-in-regression-discontinuity approach, are useful to unravel the impact of population health monitoring on decision-making and professional behaviour of healthcare providers. A better understanding of the contribution of health monitoring to the behaviour of healthcare providers can help guide improvements within the (perinatal) healthcare chain.
Literature for All: On Designation and Interpretation in Hugo’s
Notre-Dame de Paris
Authors: Dubois Alexandre 
Published: February 2023

Abstract

This article contends that Victor Hugo’s
Notre-Dame de Paris
is a novel that follows a democratic principle by opening up its meaning, and that of its titular cathedral, to anyone and everyone. Whereas Hugo’s novel and his famous syntagm ‘ceci tuera cela’ have been extensively studied as an examination of the fall of architecture in favour of the printed book, this article will argue that a semiotic analysis of the syntagm reveals Hugo’s intention to recognize the legitimacy of society’s subjects to experience and talk about (artistic) objects. Through a discussion of the chapters added in the book’s second edition and in which Hugo comments on his own work, this article recontextualizes the spatial, historical, and political components that help clarify the democratic intent at the centre of the novel, but also of its resurgence in popularity in 2019 when Notre-Dame was devastated by fire.