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. 4 (2024): Fall 2024 Issue
Published: 2024-12-17
A Scoping Study of RHM Research (2006–2020)
This essay reports results from a scoping study of recent rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) research published in article form prior to the...
Identification, Superheroes, and the Visual Communication of Agency in Online Children’s Books about COVID-19
Children, as a result of age, social status, and developmental stage, depend upon caregivers and medical professionals to interpret health...
Protestantism, Theo-Moral Physiology, and the Conception of the Premature Infant
Rhetoric about bodies, health, and medicine is conceived at the intersection of multiple discursive systems and social domains. I contend that...
Why Health Literacy Requires Coalition
One of the root causes of health disparities in Louisville, Kentucky, is air pollution, a disparity rooted in the city’s history of...
New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. 248 pages, $48.95 paperback, $44.05 e-book, $170 hardcover.
Review of Strategic Interventions in Mental Health Rhetoric. Lisa Melonçon and Cathryn Molloy, Eds.
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2023. 334 pages. $110.50 hardcover, $32.95 paperback, free open-access edition available. Publisher webpage: https://tupress.temple.edu/books/undoing-suicidism
Review of
Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide, Alexandre Baril, Philadelphia, PA:...