{"id":143,"date":"2019-08-27T23:35:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T23:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/?page_id=143"},"modified":"2019-08-27T23:55:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T23:55:47","slug":"143-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/143-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Swacha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/files\/2019\/08\/swacha.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"239\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Title:<\/strong> Assistant Professor of English<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>University:<\/strong> University of Maine<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Email:<\/strong> kathryn.swacha@maine.edu<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Description of your work<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am interested in how people communicate about health every day and how RHM scholars can most effectively collaborate with local communities on health-related projects.\u00a0 This interest led to my community-based work with older adults at a senior center, which examines the ways in these adults negotiate various forms of information to make decisions about their health.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most recently, I have begun a new project, in collaboration with several community partners, that explores the work of professionals who straddle the lines between \u2018medical\u2019 and \u2018nonmedical,\u2019 specifically the work of birth doulas. What particularly interests me about professionals like doulas is how their attention to the whole person\u2014as affective, emplaced, and embodied\u2014can impact their clients\u2019 health outcomes both within and beyond clinical contexts.\u00a0 I am also working on a project that explores the tradition of community-based methodologies in RHM and other related fields with an eye toward where we can facilitate greater collaboration and impact.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Assistant Professor of English University: University of Maine Email: kathryn.swacha@maine.edu Description of your work I am interested in how people communicate about health every day and how RHM scholars &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/143-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Katie Swacha&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-143","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}