Published: 2022-03-24

The Joy and Debt of Service

J. Blake Scott, Lisa Melonçon

403–412

Abstract

Editors' introduction to volume 4, issue 2.

--Read More

Lego™ Learning: A Scalable Approach to Pedagogy in the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine

Kathryn Yankura Swacha, Kirk St.Amant

446–474

Abstract

Complex health and medical contexts demand not only responsive, mutable research but also responsive, flexible pedagogies. Arguing for a shift...

--Read More

Teaching Health Justice: Centering Reproduction

Heather Adams

475–496

Abstract

This essay provides an overview of my experiences teaching Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) courses with an explicit health justice focus....

--Read More

“The Patient Decision Aid as a Pedagogical Tool: Exigencies between RHM and the Health Professions”

Maria Novotny, Dawn Opel , William Hart-Davidson

497–508

Abstract

This past decade, the healthcare industry has undergone a transformation with where, how, and why writing happens. For example, what the health...

--Read More

Codisciplinary Code-Switching: Bridging Biology and the Humanities during COVID-19

Amanda Greene, Jennifer Swann

509–524

Abstract

This article describes an experimental, interdisciplinary course on the immune system that was co-taught by a...

--Read More

“Viruses Don’t Discriminate, but People Do: Teaching Writing for Health Professionals in the Context of Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter”

Deborah Harris
Abstract

This essay explores changes to an upper-division writing course Writing for Health Professionals in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and the...

--Read More

Exercising Uncertainty: Identifying and Addressing “Gray Areas” in a Case Study Involving Corporate-Funded Research on the Effects of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

Cynthia Ryan
Abstract

RHM research brings attention to a lack of nuance in much discourse about the corporeal body,
a reflection of positivist values that too...

--Read More

Shaping a Participatory Health Communication Pedagogy with UX and Patient-Agency

Lori Beth De Hertogh, Danielle Devasto
Abstract

This short article offers examples of how rhetoricians of health and medicine (RHM) can employ user experience (UX) design principles and...

--Read More

The Patient Decision Aid as a Pedagogical Tool

Exigencies between RHM and the Health Professions

Maria Novotny, William F. Hart-Davidson, Dawn S. Opel
Abstract

This article focuses on the patient’s decision aid as a pedagogical tool that embraces the technological and multimodal changes in health and...

--Read More

Harm Reduction as Pedagogical Praxis

Confronting Capitalism in the University Classroom

CE MacKenzie
Abstract

In this essay, I bring together two spaces—street needle exchange and the university classroom—to explore harm reduction as an epistemological...

--Read More

Viruses Don’t Discriminate, But People Do

Teaching Writing for Health Professionals in the Context of Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter

Deborah Harris-Moore
Abstract

Teachers of writing are not therapists. This much I know. That seems obvious, but it’s not so obvious in times like these....

--Read More

Exercising Uncertainty

Identifying and Addressing “Grey Areas” in a Case Study involving Corporate-Funded Research on the Effects of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

Cynthia Ryan
Abstract

Rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) scholars posit that health and medicine texts cannot be divorced from the rhetorical conditions in which...

--Read More

Shaping a Participatory Communication Pedagogy with UX and Patient-Agency

Lori Beth De Hertogh, Danielle DeVasto
Abstract

A primary goal of health and medicine is enacting patient-centered care, or the practice of making patient needs and desires the “centerpiece”...

--Read More

Ethics and Practice of Knowledge Integrity in Communicating Health and Medical Research

Scott A. Mogull
Abstract

Rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) knowledge integrity is explored in the context of preparing RHM students, researchers, and practitioners...

--Read More