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. 2 (2025): Special Issue: Rural Health
Published: 2025-05-28
115–126
AbstractIntroduction to the special issue on rural health.
127–157
AbstractRural librarians are intermediaries between individuals and our health system. Librarians direct their patrons to health resources, assist with...
Crisis Pregnancy Centers as Networked Misogyny
158–85
AbstractThis project integrates Reproductive Justice (RJ) commitments with insights from networked misogyny to describe the digital coercion strategies...
186–211
AbstractIn the fall of 2020, a US/Mexico border community received national attention because of its high number of COVID cases. Hidalgo county reported...
Narrative and Social Support as Communication Strategies
212–227
AbstractPerinatal mental health disorders (PMHDs) include perinatal depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder,...
Prioritizing 'Good Farmer' Constructs and Intersectional Farmer Identities in Mental Health Messaging
228–255
AbstractIn response to a documented disproportionate incidence of suicide in rural America, this autoethnographic essay explores specific ideological...
Academics and Practitioners Talk Rural Health and the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
256–280
AbstractThis dialogue examines rural health and healthcare by putting rhetoricians who study rural communities in direct conversation with healthcare...