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. 9 No. 1 (2026): Winter 2026
Published: 2026-02-19
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AbstractThose who love people with dementia often experience the phenomenon of ambiguous loss, where the individual with dementia is both present and...
Reparative Ethos in Veteran Expressions of Survivor’s Guilt
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AbstractSurvivor’s guilt haunts countless veterans, yet little research examines how veterans rhetorically process this experience. This study analyzes...
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AbstractOverall, vaccine acceptance appears to be high. But vaccine hesitancy persists nonetheless. This article draws on moral foundations theory (MFT)...
Vaccine Sentiment Analysis of Newspaper Comments, 2017–2023
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AbstractThis article demonstrates the value of sentiment analysis for contextualizing audiences in Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) by comparing...
An Invitation
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AbstractWe invite readers to imagine Graphic RHM as more than a column but a growing community of practice (CoP) and offer two analogies for...
Review of Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care. Susannah Fox. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. 200...
A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing; Kristin Marie Bivens, Taylor & Francis, 2024. 142 pages, $53.99 Hardcover