Special Issue of Rhetoric of Health and Medicine: “Queer and Trans Health Justice: Interventions, Perspectives, and Questions” In Trans Care, Hil Malatino (2020) writes on how queer and trans networks of care are vital when medicine fails at best and harms at worst: “From […]
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Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) Call for Special Issue Proposals Related to Health Justice(s) Work
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) Call for Special Issue Proposals Related to Health Justice(s) Work RHM has been fortunate enough to publish one special issue each year. While we accept proposals for special issues on a rolling basis, by individuals or groups (including groups that include researchers in other […]
Embodied Approaches to Online Infertility Research
Shanna Cameron, Author Molly Kessler, Editor While RHM has always been concerned with understanding the unique lived experiences of patients, the current social injustices occurring throughout the world demonstrate that it’s more important than ever to utilize inter-, multi-, and transdisciplinary approaches in order to […]
Welcoming RHM’s New Assistant Editors
The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine would like to extend a heartfelt welcome to our new assistant editors: Molly Margaret Kessler, Fernando Sánchez, Bryna Siegel Finer, & Erin Trauth. We are excited for this next chapter in RHM’s story, and we look forward to the […]
RHM (3.4) and a Section on Ethics
by: Michelle Sonnenberg As you plan your courses, keep the new issue of Rhetoric of Health and Medicine 3(4) in mind. This issue has a special section on ethics. The essays from this special section continue RHM’s commitment to an ongoing examination of ethics which […]
Return of RHM Third Thursdays
30 January 2021 After a challenging 2020, we are re-starting RHM Third Thursdays! Third Thursdays are monthly gatherings where you can come together with other people in the RHM community. They are informal discussions that take place, you guessed it, on the third Thursday of […]
Old to new again
What has struck me lately is this idea of what is old is new again. Or rather, that the history of health and medicine can give us insights into our own current time. Historical events and historical concepts provide interesting examples or analogous points for […]
Assistant Editors’ Interview with Dr. David Gruber and Dr. Jason Kalin
Cathryn Molloy, James Madison University Erin Trauth, High Point University Description RHM Assisant Editor Podcast Interview with Dr. David Gruber and Dr. Jason Kalin on their article,”Gut Rhetorics: Towards Experiments in Living with Microbiota” Recommended Citation Molloy, Cathryn and Trauth, Erin (2018) “Assistant Editors’ Interview with Dr. […]
Call for co-editor of Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
Submission deadline: January 29th, 2021 The co-editors and editorial board of the journal Rhetoric of Health & Medicine (RHM) are soliciting proposals for a co-editor with a five-year commitment. The appointed editor should be available to work with the current co-editors starting in the summer […]
RHM’s next steps
All things in life work in cycles, and academic lives and events are no different. At the closing session of the recent 4th biennial RHM Symposium, we talked as a group about next steps for the RHM community. So we are gathering your thoughts and […]
