Welcome Dr. Lora Anderson as new co-editor of RHM
2026-07-01
The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine journal is excited to announce that Dr. Lora Anderson will be joining Dr. Fernando Sánchez as the co-editor of the journal beginning in August of 2026.
Announcements
Reviewing for RHM--Overview and Tips
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.
RHM's commitment to anti-racist and inclusive reviewing practices
2021-05-24
RHM Statement about Anti-Racist and Inclusive Scholarly Reviewing Practices
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.RHM Wins National Award
2020-01-27
The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) has been presented the “Best New Journal” award by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Awarded at MLA on January 10th, 2020, RHM is the first writing or rhetoric journal to be given this award in the last ten years.
Accepting Book Review Submissions
2019-04-20
RHM is now accepting traditional book reviews that will be assigned to an issue and published as an open access supplement to the journal at https://stars.library.ucf.edu/rhm/Video: Decisions letters
2018-09-14
Learn how the co-editors, Blake Scott and Lisa Meloncon, write the decisions letters that are sent to authors when a manuscript has been reviewed.Video: Author Interviews
2018-01-15
Learn how RHM's assistant editors will work with authors to to help spread the word on their important work.Video: Other submission types
2017-12-18
Learn about our different submissions types outside of the traditional research article.Video: Rhetoric in RHM
2017-12-11
Learn why RHM is a rhetoric journal and what that meansVideo: Research articles peer review process
2017-11-27
Learn about the peer review process for research articles at RHM!Call for Proposals for Special Issues
2017-11-13
Ever thought about editing a special issue of a journal?? Got a great idea? Learn more about the RHM process.Now Accepting Submissions
2017-05-12
The Rhetoric of Health & Medicine is now accepting submissions through our online submission system.