Published: 2022-01-18
Editors' Introduction
On Historical Connections in/to Food as Medicine
AbstractCo-Editor Lisa Melonçon contextualizes the Vol. 4 issue 2 Special Issue on Food as Medicine in this short historic essay. Read online or
The Rhetoric of Food as Medicine
Introduction to Special Issue on the Rhetoric of Food and Health
111–125
AbstractGuest editor's introduction to the special issue on the rhetoric of food and health.
Interview
Interview with Danielle Stambler
AbstractIncludes Stambler’s appendix on food-related wellness practices at the University of Minnesota and an interview with Stambler on the process of...
Research Articles
Kincentricity and Indigenous Wellbeing
Food(ways) and/as Holistic Health in the Native Medicine Wheel
126–157
AbstractThis manuscript explores the rhetorical coupling of food as a holistic health initiative across two Indigenous organizations—Indian Health...
Eating Data
The Rhetorics of Food, Medicine, and Technology in Employee Wellness Programs
158–186
AbstractThis article explores how food-related practices are discursively constructed in an employee wellness program (EWP). Drawing on qualitative...
Toxically Clean
Homophonic Expertise, Goop, and the Ideology of Choice
187–217
AbstractThe public’s declining trust in health advice from traditional outlets has long been noted by scholars. But what makes alternative sources for...
The Dialectic of Food Swamps and Clean Food
Ecological Interventions for Disrupting Individualizing Frames of Food Choice
218–245
AbstractApplying an ecological rhetorical approach, this article examines the online circulation of arguments about food choice in two seemingly...
Dialogues
The Rhetoric of Vegan/Vegetarianism, and Health, Medicine, and Culture
A Dialogue
246–273
AbstractThis dialogue piece provides scholars of the rhetoric of health and medicine with a close examination of vegan and vegetarian diets/lifestyles...
Book Reviews
Elena Kalodner-Martin's Review of Women’s Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century. Jamie White-Farnham, Bryna Siegel Finer, and Cathryn Molloy, Eds.
AbstractWomen’s Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century. Jamie White-Farnham, Bryna Siegel Finer, and Cathryn Molloy, Eds....