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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   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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]