Published: 2019-10-08
Editors' Introduction
Research Articles
Why Should I Really Consider This? The Rhetoric of Patient Motives in Phase 1 Cancer Clinical Trial Consultations
233–258
AbstractPhase 1 cancer clinical trial consultations are fraught with ethical and rhetorical issues. Phase 1 trials are designed to test the toxicity,...
Dying Virtues: Medical Doctors’ Epideictic Rhetoric of How to Die
259–290
AbstractThis essay takes the recent popularity of medical doctors’ narrative writings about the dying process as its cultural exigence, analyzing these...
Changing the Face of the Opioid Epidemic: A Generic Rhetorical Analysis of Addiction Obituaries
291–320
AbstractObituaries are becoming an increasingly popular medium that people who have lost friends and relatives to opioid overdose are using to speak...
Surveying Precarious Publics
321–351
AbstractThis essay assumes that the design and use of surveys is a fundamentally rhetorical act. It provides suggestions for employing and designing...