Published: 2025-05-28
Editors' Introduction
Introduction to ‘Down Home, Down the Street’: Examining Rural Health in the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
115–126
AbstractIntroduction to the special issue on rural health.
Research Articles
Rural Librarians as Health Information Intermediaries: How Librarians Complicate “Rural,” Leverage Kairotic Opportunities, and Communicate through Health Ideographs
127–157
AbstractRural librarians are intermediaries between individuals and our health system. Librarians direct their patrons to health resources, assist with...
Googling for Abortion in the Rural United States
Crisis Pregnancy Centers as Networked Misogyny
158–85
AbstractThis project integrates Reproductive Justice (RJ) commitments with insights from networked misogyny to describe the digital coercion strategies...
Diseases in Colonias
186–211
AbstractIn the fall of 2020, a US/Mexico border community received national attention because of its high number of COVID cases. Hidalgo county reported...
Communication about Perinatal Mental Health Disorders in the Rural United States
Narrative and Social Support as Communication Strategies
212–227
AbstractPerinatal mental health disorders (PMHDs) include perinatal depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder,...
From ‘Crisis to Chronic’
Prioritizing 'Good Farmer' Constructs and Intersectional Farmer Identities in Mental Health Messaging
228–255
AbstractIn response to a documented disproportionate incidence of suicide in rural America, this autoethnographic essay explores specific ideological...
Dialogues
Deficit, Exploitation, Beauty, Opportunity
Academics and Practitioners Talk Rural Health and the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
256–280
AbstractThis dialogue examines rural health and healthcare by putting rhetoricians who study rural communities in direct conversation with healthcare...