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CFP:Rhetoric of Health and Medicine 2020 Special Issue “Interrogating the Past and Shaping the Future of Mental Health Rhetoric Research” ** Download CFP (*.pdf) In the inaugural issue of the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine (RHM)J. Fred Reynolds (2018) offered a “A Short History of […]

note: this is a guest blog by Rachael Lussos, who shares with us a summary of the VCRHM. It’s wonderful to be able to share RHM activities and events. RHM is a vibrant community and events like VCRHM help raise our profile and are experiences […]

The goal for the next academic year is to get more content posted here. on the blog that specifically engages with ongoing work or ideas related to the community of RHM. Since it is often helpful to have models of what we mean, the following […]

For those that will be attending ATTW and/or CCCCs convention, following are some RHM specific activities. Happy Hour and SIG Thursday March 15 Happy Hour, 4:30-: will precede the SIG meeting. We’ll be gathering at the Flying Saucer, 101 E 13th St, Kansas City, MO […]

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 […]