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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 […]

Join the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine/Flux community for informal chats that are focused on a specific topic of interest to members of the community. Download a summary (*.pdf) of this information so you can have it at the ready! November 17 In our first […]

22 July 2016 by Lisa Meloncon In what follows I briefly describe the process that we took in reviewing proposals for the proposed volume The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Concepts for an Emerging Field. Since the editors (Scott Graham, Jenell Johnson, […]

As we’re moving through the summer, the social media crew (Maria Novotny, Lori Beth De Hertogh, and Rachel Bloom-Polar) have been posting some intriguing topics on twitter and the Flux Facebook group. We’re working toward having some additional content appear here to intersect with those […]

Per our by-laws we’re set to elect an Associate Chair and Member-at-Large this year. Those of you who identify as a scholar of the rhetoric of health and medicine and are also members of the CCCCs are eligible to vote. (We’re on the honor system […]