RHM's commitment to anti-racist and inclusive reviewing practices
2021-05-24
RHM Statement about Anti-Racist and Inclusive Scholarly Reviewing Practices
This 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. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine 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.
Announcements
Request for Proposals: Co-Editor of Rhetoric of Health & Medicine
2020-10-31
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 of 2021. They will be supported by a team of assistant editors and editorial assistants.
Response to Racial Injustice
2020-06-17
The co-editors of RHM want to empahsize the journal's commitment in cultivating, sponsoring, publishing, and promoting scholarship that addresses racism and interlocking systems of oppression as public health (and/or other health or medical) issues. We welcome queries or submissions around these important issues.Current Issue
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2021): Food as Medicine Special Issue
Published: 2022-01-18
Editors' Introduction
The Rhetoric of Food as Medicine
Introduction to Special Issue on the Rhetoric of Food and Health
111–125
AbstractGuest editor's introduction to the special issue on the rhetoric of food and health.
Research Articles
Kincentricity and Indigenous Wellbeing
Food(ways) and/as Holistic Health in the Native Medicine Wheel
126–157
AbstractThis manuscript explores the rhetorical coupling of food as a holistic health initiative across two Indigenous organizations—Indian Health...
Eating Data
The Rhetorics of Food, Medicine, and Technology in Employee Wellness Programs
158–186
AbstractThis article explores how food-related practices are discursively constructed in an employee wellness program (EWP). Drawing on qualitative...
Toxically Clean
Homophonic Expertise, Goop, and the Ideology of Choice
187–217
AbstractThe public’s declining trust in health advice from traditional outlets has long been noted by scholars. But what makes alternative sources for...
The Dialectic of Food Swamps and Clean Food
Ecological Interventions for Disrupting Individualizing Frames of Food Choice
218–245
AbstractApplying an ecological rhetorical approach, this article examines the online circulation of arguments about food choice in two seemingly...
Dialogues
The Rhetoric of Vegan/Vegetarianism, and Health, Medicine, and Culture
A Dialogue
246–273
AbstractThis dialogue piece provides scholars of the rhetoric of health and medicine with a close examination of vegan and vegetarian diets/lifestyles...