Third Thursdays are informal gatherings where you can come together with other people in the RHM community, held on the third Thursday of every month. This semester’s dates are February 17, March 17, and April 21, 2022. We often have a topic, but mostly, Third […]
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Call for RHM Symposium Co-Chair
Call for RHM Symposium Co-Chair EXTENDED Submission deadline: February 1st, 2022! The current chair and advisory committee for the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine (RHM) Symposium invite applications (letter of interest and CV) for a new co-chair! We are beginning a new process of staggering […]
CFP: Special Issue of Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, “In Living Color: Amplifying Racial Justice Work in RHM”
Rhetoric of Health & Medicine Special Issue CFP In Living Color: Amplifying Racial Justice Work in RHM Earlier this year, the CDC declared racism a “serious threat to public health.” Likewise, cities and […]
CFP: Special Issue of Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, “Queer and Trans Health Justice: Interventions, Perspectives, and Questions”
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 […]
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 […]
