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 […]
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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 […]
CFP: Teaching Approaches to RHM
Download CFP in *.pdf For a special section of RHM, we invite shorter, 2000-3500-word essays that discuss responsive and innovative approaches to teaching that draw on and possibly contribute to the rhetoric of health and medicine (broadly defined). The goal of this featured special section […]
Race and Racism in Health and Medicine: A Working Bibliography
Race and Racism in Health and Medicine: A Working Bibliography for Rhetoric of Health and Medicine August 11, 2020 In June 2020, the CCCC Medical Rhetoric Standing Group released a statement affirming that Black lives matter. As part of our commitment to action, we have […]
RHM’s Response to Racial Injustice
By: J. Blake Scott, Lisa Melonçon, Cathryn Molloy, Co-Editors, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine “I can’t breathe,” 30-year-old Brooklyn teacher Rana Zoe Mungin told an ambulance driver. The driver insinuated that this was caused by a panic attack and not the virus that causes COVID-19—the […]
Decision process for SI on Chronicity
23 April 2020 by Lisa Melonçon Over at the journal, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, we continue to work hard in moving manuscripts through review, and we’ve also been working through proposals for RHM’s fourth (!) special issue on the rhetoric of chronicity. As I’ve […]
Communicating About COVID-19
cross-posted with permission from the author by: Kirk St.Amant Download a PDF of this information The COVID-19 pandemic is prompting communication professionals to examine ways they might help their communities. As the pandemic unfolds, the question becomes: How can communication professionals meaningfully intervene in this […]
CFP Special issue of RHM: Chronicity
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) Special Issue: Rhetoric of Chronicity Guest Editors Lora Arduser and Jeff Bennett According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC, 2019), 6 in 10 adults in the United States has a chronic disease and 4 in 10 have two […]
