Erin Fitzgerald

PhD Candidate

Auburn University

Description of Work:

As an RHM scholar, my research in health and medicine focuses on vaccine campaigns, FDA drug approval policies and practices, HPV and HIV medication rhetoric, gendered health disparities and embodiment, and ethics of care in health and medicine discourse. More broadly, my research bridges rhetorical genre studies, mobility studies, rhetoric of science, and technical communication. I have presented at the Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, and the Southwest Popular American Culture Association Annual Conference. My work has appeared in Kairos, and I have a book chapter titled, “Gendered Responsibility: A Critique of HPV Vaccine Advertisements, 2006-2016” published in the edited collection Women’s Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century. I am currently writing a dissertation that examines how “at risk” characterization is operationalized in FDA’s drug approval documents for three specific HIV drugs (e.g., Retrovir, Combivir, and Stribild), and in turn, how risk perceptions become normalized in public health policies and practices.

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