Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field
The rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) is a growing and vibrant area of inquiry incorporating scholars working across a variety of fields and disciplines. While this makes it a source for rich and innovative scholarship, this emerging field is in need of a guiding text that can bring together the disparate work spread across multiple disciplines and institutional spaces. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field answers this call by providing an in-depth and wide-reaching analysis of the state of the rhetoric of health and medicine and offering core concepts and critical theories to ground research moving forward.
 
With a foreword by Judy Segal and in sections that address interdisciplinary perspectives, representations of health and illness in online spaces, and health activism and advocacy, this volume proceeds in a unique format: essays tackle these key topic areas through case studies ranging from food and its relation to public health, to apps that track fertility, to mental health and disability, to racial disparities that exist in public health campaigns about sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The essays within each section are then followed by responses from prominent scholars in the rhetoric of health and medicine—including John Lyne, J. Blake Scott, and Lisa Keränen—who take on the central theme and discuss how the theory or concept under study can and should evolve in the next stages of research. Unifying the essays is a consideration of RHM as a theoretical construct guiding research and thinking alongside the conceptual parameters that constitute what RHM is and can be in practice. In asking questions about the role of rhetoric—both as analytic and productive framework—in health and medicine, this volume engages with broader theoretical and ethical concerns about our current healthcare system and how healthcare and medical issues circulate in all the social, cultural, economic, and political aspects of our world.
 
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Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field
The rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) is a growing and vibrant area of inquiry incorporating scholars working across a variety of fields and disciplines. While this makes it a source for rich and innovative scholarship, this emerging field is in need of a guiding text that can bring together the disparate work spread across multiple disciplines and institutional spaces. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field answers this call by providing an in-depth and wide-reaching analysis of the state of the rhetoric of health and medicine and offering core concepts and critical theories to ground research moving forward.
 
With a foreword by Judy Segal and in sections that address interdisciplinary perspectives, representations of health and illness in online spaces, and health activism and advocacy, this volume proceeds in a unique format: essays tackle these key topic areas through case studies ranging from food and its relation to public health, to apps that track fertility, to mental health and disability, to racial disparities that exist in public health campaigns about sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The essays within each section are then followed by responses from prominent scholars in the rhetoric of health and medicine—including John Lyne, J. Blake Scott, and Lisa Keränen—who take on the central theme and discuss how the theory or concept under study can and should evolve in the next stages of research. Unifying the essays is a consideration of RHM as a theoretical construct guiding research and thinking alongside the conceptual parameters that constitute what RHM is and can be in practice. In asking questions about the role of rhetoric—both as analytic and productive framework—in health and medicine, this volume engages with broader theoretical and ethical concerns about our current healthcare system and how healthcare and medical issues circulate in all the social, cultural, economic, and political aspects of our world.
 
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The rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) is a growing and vibrant area of inquiry incorporating scholars working across a variety of fields and disciplines. While this makes it a source for rich and innovative scholarship, this emerging field is in need of a guiding text that can bring together the disparate work spread across multiple disciplines and institutional spaces. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field answers this call by providing an in-depth and wide-reaching analysis of the state of the rhetoric of health and medicine and offering core concepts and critical theories to ground research moving forward.
 
With a foreword by Judy Segal and in sections that address interdisciplinary perspectives, representations of health and illness in online spaces, and health activism and advocacy, this volume proceeds in a unique format: essays tackle these key topic areas through case studies ranging from food and its relation to public health, to apps that track fertility, to mental health and disability, to racial disparities that exist in public health campaigns about sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The essays within each section are then followed by responses from prominent scholars in the rhetoric of health and medicine—including John Lyne, J. Blake Scott, and Lisa Keränen—who take on the central theme and discuss how the theory or concept under study can and should evolve in the next stages of research. Unifying the essays is a consideration of RHM as a theoretical construct guiding research and thinking alongside the conceptual parameters that constitute what RHM is and can be in practice. In asking questions about the role of rhetoric—both as analytic and productive framework—in health and medicine, this volume engages with broader theoretical and ethical concerns about our current healthcare system and how healthcare and medical issues circulate in all the social, cultural, economic, and political aspects of our world.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814278161
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Publication date: 09/01/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 270
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Lisa Melonçon is Professor at the University of South Florida and editor of Methodologies for the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine. S. Scott Graham is Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and author of The Politics of Pain Medicine: A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry. Jenell Johnson is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History. John A. Lynch is Professor at the University of Cincinnati and author of What Are Stem Cells? Definitions at the Intersection of Science and Politics. Cynthia Ryan is Associate Professor at the University of Alabama and editor of City Comp: Identities, Spaces, Practices.

Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword

            Judy Segal

Introduction    The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is

            Lisa Melonçon, S. Scott Graham, Jenell Johnson, and John Lynch

Section 1         Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Chapter 1        Health Humanities as an Interdisciplinary Intervention: Constitutive Rhetoric, Genre, and Health Citizenship

            Colleen Derkatch and Philippa Spoel

Chapter 2        Mediating Minds: Disability Studies and the Rhetoric of Mental Health

            Drew Holladay and Margaret Price

Chapter 3        From HeLa Cells to Henrietta Lacks: Rehumanization and Pathos as Interventions for the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine

            Emily Winderman and Jamie Landau

RESPONSE TO INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES           Mapping the Healthscape: Onto, Eco, and Otherwise

            John Lyne

Section 2         Representations and Online Health

Chapter 4        Enactments of Self: Studying Binaries and Boundaries in Autoimmunity

            Molly Kessler

Chapter 5        “Did you have sex today?”: Discourses of Pregnancy and Big Data in Fertility-Tracking Apps

            Amanda Friz and Stacey Overholt

Chapter 6        Theorizing Chronicity: Rhetoric, Representation, and Identification, on Pinterest

            Sarah Ann Singer and Jordynn Jack

RESPONSE TO REPRESENTATIONS AND ONLINE HEALTH An Analytic of and Beyond Representation for the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine

            J. Blake Scott

Section 3         Health Citizenship and Advocacy

Chapter 7        Rhetoric as Rhetorical Health Citizenship: Rhetorical Agency, Public Deliberation, and Health Citizenship as Rhetorical Forms

            Rebecca Kuehl, Sara Drury, and Jennifer Anderson

Chapter 8        Challenging Racial Disparities: The Advocacy of Social Justice

            Jennifer Helene Maher

Chapter 9        Decolonizing Medical Discourse through Promotora Practices in Community Health

            Amy C. Hickman

Chapter 10      Medical Interpretation As/Is a Rhetorical Approach to Health Care

            Rachel Bloom-Pojar and Laura Gonzales

RESPONSE TO HEALTH CITIZENSHIP AND ADVOCACY     On Seeing Health Rhetorics as Deliberation, Power, and Resistance

            Lisa B. Keränen

Afterword       Perspectives on the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is Past, Present, and Future

            Cynthia Ryan, Barbara Heifferon, and T. Kenny Fountain

List of Contributors

Index

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