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.
2023-10-23
Recently, the editing team held a "coffee chat" at the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium. For that event, co-editor Kim Hensley Owens prepared this video , which offers an overview and tips for those interested in reviewing for the journal.
2021-05-24
RHM Statement about Anti-Racist and Inclusive Scholarly Reviewing Practices
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.Vol. 8 No. 3 (2025): Summer 2025
Published: 2025-08-06
Matters of Mentorship/Mentorship Matters
281–286
AbstractEditors' Introduction to Volume 8 issue 3
Disclosing the Methodological Mess of Metarhetorical Attunement and the Kairotic Hinge
287–315
AbstractThis article breaks from the traditional structure of social science research reports to offer an alternative...
316–343
AbstractWhile parents have long turned to experts of various kinds for childrearing advice, books like Emily Oster’s Cribsheet suggest that...
Sustaining a Dwelling Place for RHM
344–354
AbstractThe following article is a rendering of the opening keynote speech given by Dr. Kimberly Harper at the 2023 Rhetoric of Health and Medicine...
The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine is Environmental Rhetoric
355–366
AbstractThis essay, adapted from one of the keynotes of the 2023 RHM symposium, explores the potential of linking the fields of rhetoric of health and...
The End of Genre: Curations and Experiments in Intentional Discourses, Brenton Faber. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. 244...
PCOS Discourses, Symbolic Impacts, and Feminist Rhetorical Disruptions of Institutional Hegemonies. Marissa C. McKinley, Lanham, MD:...