Published: 2025-12-09
Editors' Introduction
RHM's Community as a Source of Hope in Traumatic Times
367–371
AbstractEditors' Introduction to Volume 8 issue 4
Research Articles
The Role of Image Restoration Strategies in the Jesse Gelsinger Case
372–401
AbstractWe draw on William L. Benoit’s image repair theory to examine the case of Jesse Gelsinger, who died during a clinical trial testing the safety...
Embodying Expertise
The Influence of Online Information in Health Decision Making
402–433
AbstractThis article engages with rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) scholarship on embodiment and expertise in online health communication to...
The Constitution of Individual Rhetorical Agency in a Health Risk Situation
How an influencer is Putting AMR on the Agenda
434–465
AbstractWhat makes societies see, acknowledge, and constitute an issue as a crisis which should be acted upon? We address this...
Eyes are More than Cameras
The Rhetorical Infrastructure of Vision Care and Its Impact on Patients with Eye Movement Disorders
466–498
AbstractThis paper explores how an intellectual account that describes eyes as cameras shapes clinical practices of measurement and correction in vision...
Book Reviews
Review of Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric. Lois Peters Agnew. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2024. 188 pages, $34.95 Paperback, $120 Hard-cover, $34.95 eBook. Publisher webpage: https://www.uapress.u
AbstractFitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric. Lois Peters Agnew. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama...
Review of Sex and the Planet: What Opt-In Reproduction Could Do for the Globe. Margaret Pabst Battin. The MIT Press, 2024. 264 pages, $35.00 paperback.
AbstractSex and the Planet: What Opt-In Reproduction Could Do for the Globe. Margaret Pabst Battin. The MIT Press, 2024. 264 pages, $35.00...