Published: 2022-03-24
Editors' Introduction
Teaching-Focused Articles
The Trigger Warning and the Pathologizing White Rhetoric of Trauma-Informed Pedagogy
413–445
AbstractIn...
Lego™ Learning: A Scalable Approach to Pedagogy in the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
446–474
AbstractComplex health and medical contexts demand not only responsive, mutable research but also responsive, flexible pedagogies. Arguing for a shift...
Teaching Health Justice: Centering Reproduction
475–496
AbstractThis essay provides an overview of my experiences teaching Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) courses with an explicit health justice focus....
“The Patient Decision Aid as a Pedagogical Tool: Exigencies between RHM and the Health Professions”
497–508
AbstractThis past decade, the healthcare industry has undergone a transformation with where, how, and why writing happens. For example, what the health...
Codisciplinary Code-Switching: Bridging Biology and the Humanities during COVID-19
509–524
AbstractThis article describes an experimental, interdisciplinary course on the immune system that was co-taught by a...
Teaching-Focused Articles: Online Only
Ethics and Practice of Knowledge Integrity in Communicating Health and Medical Research
AbstractRhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) knowledge integrity is explored in the context of preparing RHM students,...
Viruses Don’t Discriminate, But People Do
Teaching Writing for Health Professionals in the Context of Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter
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...
Shaping a Participatory Health Communication Pedagogy with UX and Patient-Agency
AbstractThis short article offers examples of how rhetoricians of health and medicine (RHM) can employ user experience (UX) design principles and...
Exercising Uncertainty
Identifying and Addressing “Gray Areas” in a Case Study Involving Corporate-Funded Research on the Effects of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
Abstract
RHM research brings attention to a lack of nuance in much discourse about the corporeal body,
a reflection of positivist values that too...
The Patient Decision Aid as a Pedagogical Tool
Exigencies between RHM and the Health Professions
Abstract
This article focuses on the patient’s decision aid as a pedagogical tool that embraces the technological and multimodal changes in health and...