Published: 2024-12-17
Editors' Introduction
Research Articles
Durability, Portability, and Responsivity in Rhetorics of Health and Medicine (RHM):
A Scoping Study of RHM Research (2006–2020)
Abstract
This essay reports results from a scoping study of recent rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) research published in article form prior to the...
We Can Be Heroes
Identification, Superheroes, and the Visual Communication of Agency in Online Children’s Books about COVID-19
Abstract
Children, as a result of age, social status, and developmental stage, depend upon caregivers and medical professionals to interpret health...
Religion and RHM
Protestantism, Theo-Moral Physiology, and the Conception of the Premature Infant
Abstract
Rhetoric about bodies, health, and medicine is conceived at the intersection of multiple discursive systems and social domains. I contend that...
Dialogues
Air Justice in Louisville
Why Health Literacy Requires Coalition
Abstract
One of the root causes of health disparities in Louisville, Kentucky, is air pollution, a disparity rooted in the city’s history of...
Book Reviews
Review of Strategic Interventions in Mental Health Rhetoric. Lisa Melonçon and Cathryn Molloy, Eds.
New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. 248 pages, $48.95 paperback, $44.05 e-book, $170 hardcover.
Abstract
Review of Strategic Interventions in Mental Health Rhetoric. Lisa Melonçon and Cathryn Molloy, Eds.
Review of Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide, Alexandre Baril, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2023.
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
Abstract
Review of
Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide, Alexandre Baril, Philadelphia, PA:...