Published: 2018-12-11
Editors' Introduction
Socially Shaping the Field's Identity through "RHM"
i–xii
AbstractIn the introduction to the inaugural double issue, we presented our vision for RHM’s ethos as a dwelling place (Hyde, 2004) for those...
Commentaries
Ethics for Rhetoric, the Rhetoric of Ethics, and Rhetorical Ethics in Health and Medicine
213–238
AbstractShould, and could, the rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) develop a professional disciplinary code of ethics? In this commentary, I argue...
Research Articles
From Patients to Populations: Rhetorical Considerations for a Post-Compliance Medicine
239–268
AbstractScholars have criticized the rhetoric of compliance for decades. For example, they have offered a more nuanced account of why patients are...
Assistant Editors' Interview with Dr. Berkeley Franz and Dr. Dan Skinner
AbstractFetal Positions: Fetal Visualization, Public Art, and Abortion Politics
296–322
AbstractThe interrelation of scientific and aesthetic visual norms employed in anatomic sculptures opens novel and effective persuasive registers in...
Gut Rhetorics: Toward Experiments in Living with Microbiota
269–295
AbstractWhen considering the material ecologies of the human body, we must consider the bodies within—at least five hundred known species of microbes....
Assistant Editors' Interview with Dr. David Gruber and Dr. Jason Kalin
AbstractRhetorical Lessons in Health Advocacy: Advancing Persuasive Problems and Partial Solutions in Pro-Caregiving Advocacy Policy Statements
323–348
AbstractPublic health advocates often encounter the arduous rhetorical situation of championing issues assumed to be personal. One such rhetorical...
Dialogues
A Dialogue on Possibilities for Embodied Methodologies in the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine
349–371
AbstractDrawing on our experiences with qualitative research involving health and medical topics to which we have a personal connection, this dialogue...
Persuasion Briefs
"The Alabama Project": Representing the Complexity of Cancer Survivorship in Words and Images
372–395
AbstractPublic discourse about health and illness is often considered to lack the nuances and complexities offered in academic treatments of similar...