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. 6 No. 1 (2023)
Published: 2023-01-09
Editors' Introduction
Research Articles
The Rhetoric of Depression
Listening to "Listening to Prozac" in a Pandemic
9–35
AbstractThis essay examines the persuasive elements of one of the most influential books of the current era in psychiatry: Peter Kramer’s 1993 Listening...
Pedagogies of Rhetorical Empathy-in-Action
Role Playing and Story Sharing in Healthcare Education
36–63
AbstractSince successful healthcare relies heavily on a practitioner’s ability to empathize with the patient, the allied health professions—like nursing...
Personal Responsibility, Personal Shame
A Discourse Tracing of Individualism about Healthcare Costs
64–94
AbstractAmerica’s individualistic culture is reflected in deeply held beliefs about how people should manage their health and their (lack of) money. In...
From Junkies to Victims
The Racial Projects of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 and the U.S. Opioid Epidemic
95–124
AbstractIn the context of narcotic drug epidemics, racist logics can shape policy deliberation and delimit uptake. While critical public health scholars...
Book Reviews
Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty by Christa Teston
AbstractReview of Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty.