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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]