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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 […]

Deadline extended due to lots of questions and requests for extensions.  New due date for proposals is June 15, 2016 Please consider submitting to the following. We are especially interested in a wide variety of voices and innovative proposals. This is your chance to help […]

It’s time to submit proposals for CCCC 2017 Medical Rhetoric Standing Group Panel. See the CFP below!! —— The field of the rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) has come a long way since Judy Segal described it as a “subfield” (2005, p. 312). With […]