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by Lisa Meloncon I love when my different fields converge in really, really interesting ways, which was the case this past week when an intriguing internal training document from 1996 (that I have not been able to 100% verify) popped up on social media. The […]

28 December 2017 by Lisa Meloncon Happy Break Everyone – I hope that you’re finding time to rest and recuperate during this down time between terms. Over at the journal, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, we’ve been working hard on getting the first issue moving […]

We’re working toward getting our bibliography in a better working order. This has been a need and desire of folks in the community for some time and is now an official project of the RHM journal and the CCCCs Standing Group on Medical Rhetoric. So […]

To keep building our wonderful community (and so we have an excuse to chat about medrhet over adult beverages), we are offering two conference meet-and-greets in the fall. One is for the Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference and the other is for the Conference on Community […]

Having just completed another successful symposium, it’s time for the community to think about and work on what the next iteration of the symposium will look like. Just a brief overview. The current model of the symposium is not easily sustainable since it has been […]

by Lisa Meloncon The impetus for this post is to only have to write something once. Taking two steps back…the Symposium for the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine 2017 generated a large number of proposals. A pretty sizeable subset of those proposals were submitted by […]

Call for Assistant Editors for Rhetoric of Health & Medicine We seek two Assistant Editors to work with us on the new journal, Rhetoric of Health & Medicine (RHM), published by the University of Florida Press. To get a description of the journal, go to […]

For those of you who are more on the composition and writing studies side of the house, the CCCCs is coming up, March 15-19, 2017 in Portland. Mark your calendars for the following: March 16 at 5:00: RHM happy hour at Spirit of 77, which […]

Download CFP Nearly twenty years ago, the landmark special issue on “Medical Rhetoric” was published in Technical Communication Quarterly. Since then, research in this area has flourished, with scholars publishing numerous books, articles, and special issues on the topic. The editors of that special issue, […]

Blake Scott and I are pleased to announce that we have a journal of our very own! The University of Florida Press will be publishing the journal the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine with a launch date of early 2018. So brush off those manuscripts […]