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
2020-10-31
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.
Vol. 7 No. 1 (2024): Special Issue on Queer And Trans Health Justice: Interventions, Perspectives, And Questions
Published: 2024-04-22
17-45
AbstractThis essay examines how medical rhetorics helped justify the recent torrent of anti-trans legislation. Beginning with the “legitimacy wars”...
96-120
AbstractThis manuscript offers a critical rhetorical analysis of a multi-site, longitudinal study’s procedures in collecting...