The Rhetoric of Health & Medicine journal publishes studies of health and medicine that take a rhetorical perspective. Such studies combine rhetorical analysis with any number of other methodologies, including critical/cultural analysis, ethnography, qualitative analysis, and quantitative analysis. RHM journal seeks to bring together humanities and social scientific research traditions in a rhetorically focused journal to allow scholars to build new interdisciplinary theories, methodologies, and insights that can impact our understanding of health, illness, healing, and wellness.
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Vol. 9 Issue 2: Reviews of Patient Sense by Lillian Campbell (reviewer: Maggie Hart), Doing Gender Justice by Shui-Yin Sharon Yam and Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz (reviewer: Clare Frances Kennedy) and Minor Troubles by Erin J. Rand (reviewer: Justiss Wilder Burry).
Vol. 9 Issue 1: Reviews of Rebel Health by Susannah Fox (reviewer: Elena Kalodner-Martin) and A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing by Kristin Marie Bivens (reviewer: Hua Wang).
Vol. 8 Issue 4: Reviews of Fitter, Happier by Lois Peters Agnew (reviewers: Kari J. Lundgren) and Sex and the Planet by Margaret Pabst Battin (reviewer: Sumaiya Sarker Sharmin).
Vol. 8 Issue 3: Interview with Dr. Megan Eatman. Reviews of PCOS Discourses, Symbolic Impacts, and Feminist Rhetorical Disruptions of Institutional Hegemonies by Marissa C. McKinley (reviewer: Leslie R. Anglesey) and The End of Genre by Brenton Faber (reviewer: Katrina Hinson).
Vol. 8 Issue 1: Reviews of Doing Dignity by Christa Teston (reviewer: Rachel W. Bryson) and Patients Making Meaning by Bryna Siegel Finer, Cathryn Molloy, and Jamie White-Farnham (reviewer: Darlene Johnston).
Vol. 7 Issue 4: Reviews of Strategic Interventions in Mental Health Rhetoric by Lisa Melonçon and Cathryn Molloy (reviewer: Josh Chase) and Undoing Suicidism by Alexandre Baril (reviewer: Joe Edward Hatfield).
Vol. 7 Issue 3: Reviews of Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine by Cathryn Molloy (reviewer: Hua Wang).
Vol. 7 Issue 2: Review of Stigma Stories by Molly Margaret Kessler (reviewer: Martha Sue Karnes).
Vol. 7 Issue 1: Review of Trans Care by Hil Malatino (reviewer: Teresa Williams).
Vol. 6 Issue 4: Reviews of Good Ethics and Bad Choices by Jennifer S. Blumenthal-Barby (reviewer: S. Scott Graham) and Why Wellness Sells by Colleen Derkatch (reviewer: Brittany Smart).
Vol. 6 Issue 3: Reviews of The Invisible Kingdom by Megan O’Rourke (reviewer: Cristina De León-Menjivar), Interrogating Gendered Pathologies by Erin A. Frost and Michelle F. Eble (reviewer: Julie Gerdes), and Teaching Writing in the Health Professions by Michael J. Madsen (reviewer: Yeqing Kong).
Vol. 6 Issue 2: Online-only article “Remember to P.A.C.K. for Racially Inclusive Content Strategy: Resource Guide: A Starting Point for Health Professionals” by Sara Doan and Cristy Kennedy.
Vol. 6 Issue 1: Reviews of Inflamed by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel (reviewer: Allison Lockwood Rowland) and Bodies in Flux by Christa Teston (reviewer: Lisa DeTora).
Vol. 5 Issue 3: Reviews of The Origins of Bioethics by John A. Lynch (reviewer: Bryna Siegel Finer) and The Ethos of Black Motherhood in America by Kimberly C. Harper (reviewer: Elizabeth Topping).
Vol. 5 Issue 2: Interview with Sarah Ann Singer.
Vol. 5 Issue 1: Review of Translanguaging Outside the Academy by Rachel Bloom-Pojar (reviewer: Warren Bareiss).
Vol. 4 Issue 4: Introduction to the special issue: “The joy and debt of service” by J. Blake Scott and Lisa Melonçon. Online supplemental material for “Teaching Health Justice” by Heather Brook Adams, “Codisciplinary Code-Switching” by Amanda K. Greene and Jennifer Swan; and “The Patient Aid as a Pedagogical Tool” by Maria Novotny, William F. Hart-Davidson, and Dawn S. Opel. Companion online-only articles by CE MacKenzie, Deborah Harris, Cynthia Ryan, Lori Beth De Hertogh & Danielle DeVasto, and Scott A. Mogull.
Vol. 4 Issue 3: Reviews of Diagnosing Madness by Christina Hanganu-Bresch and Carol Berkenkotter (reviewer: Shannon Fanning); You’re Doing it Wrong! by Bethany L. Johnson and Margaret M. Quinlan (reviewer: Rachael Lussos); and From Hysteria to Hormones by Amy Koerber (reviewer: Calvin Coker).
Vol. 4 Issue 2: Introduction to the special issue on food as medicine: “On Historical Connections” by Lisa Melonçon. Interview with Danielle Stambler.
Vol. 4 Issue 1: Interview with Krista Kennedy, Noah Wilson, and Charlotte Tschider. Review of Women’s Health Advocacy by Jamie White-Farnham (reviewer: Elenda Kalodner-Martin).
Vol. 3 Issue 3: Review of Being at Genetic Risk by Kelly Pender (reviewer: Jillian K. Zwilling)
Vol. 3 Issue 2: “Teaching and researching with a mental health diagnosis: Practices and perspectives on academic ableism” by Ann Green, Alyssa Hillary, Lucia Dura, Patrick Harris, Leah Heilig, Bailey Kirby, Jay McClintick, Emily Pfender, and Rebecca Carrasco (online-only article)
Vol. 3 Issue 1: Interview with Cassandra (Casi) Kearney, PhD. Reviews of Bounding Biomedicine by Colleen Derkatch (reviewer: Blake Scott) and Rhetorical Work in Emergency Services by Elizabeth L. Angeli (reviewer: Marissa McKinley).
Vol. 2 Issue 2: Interviews with Lisa Keränen, and Liz Angeli, Ph.D., & Christina Norwood, M.S.
Vol. 2 Issue 1: Interview with Dr. Abby Dubisar and Sara Davis.
Vol 1. Issue 3-4: Interviews with Dr. David Gruber & Dr. Jason Kalin, and with Dr. Berkeley Franz and Dr. Dan Skinner.
Vol 1. Issue 1-2: Interviews with Dr. J. Fred Reynolds, Dr. Lisa DeTora, and Dr. Heidi Lawrence.