Published: 2026-02-19
Editors' Introduction
Research Articles
The Ambiguous Narrative of Dick Johnson is Dead (2020)
7–32
AbstractThose who love people with dementia often experience the phenomenon of ambiguous loss, where the individual with dementia is both present and...
Making Amends to the Dead
Reparative Ethos in Veteran Expressions of Survivor’s Guilt
33–61
AbstractSurvivor’s guilt haunts countless veterans, yet little research examines how veterans rhetorically process this experience. This study analyzes...
Valuative Alignment and Doing Vaccine Anecdotes with Moral Foundations Theory
62–87
AbstractOverall, vaccine acceptance appears to be high. But vaccine hesitancy persists nonetheless. This article draws on moral foundations theory (MFT)...
Using Natural Language Processing to Rhetorically Contextualize Audiences
Vaccine Sentiment Analysis of Newspaper Comments, 2017–2023
88–109
AbstractThis article demonstrates the value of sentiment analysis for contextualizing audiences in Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) by comparing...
Special Section
Graphic RHM
An Invitation
110–114
AbstractWe invite readers to imagine Graphic RHM as more than a column but a growing community of practice (CoP) and offer two analogies for...
Book Reviews
Review of Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care. Susannah Fox. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. 200 pages, $29.95 hardcover.
AbstractReview of Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care. Susannah Fox. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. 200...
Review of A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing; Kristin Marie Bivens, Taylor & Francis, 2024. 142 pages, $53.99 Hardcover
AbstractA History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing; Kristin Marie Bivens, Taylor & Francis, 2024. 142 pages, $53.99 Hardcover