1st Edition

Methodologies for the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine

Edited By Lisa Meloncon, J. Blake Scott Copyright 2018
    330 Pages
    by Routledge

    330 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume charts new methodological territories for rhetorical studies and the emerging field of the rhetoric of health and medicine. In offering an expanded, behind-the-scenes view of rhetorical methodologies, it advances the larger goal of differentiating the rhetoric of health and medicine as a distinct but pragmatically diverse area of study, while providing rhetoricians and allied scholars new ways to approach and explain their research.

    Collectively, the volume’s 16 chapters:

    • Develop, through extended examples of research, creative theories and methodologies for studying and engaging medicine’s high-stakes practices.
    • Provide thick descriptions of and heuristics for methodological invention and adaptation that meet the needs of needs of new and established researchers.
    • Discuss approaches to researching health and medical rhetorics across a range of contexts (e.g., historical, transnational, socio-cultural, institutional) and about a range of ethical issues (e.g., agency, social justice, responsiveness).

    Introduction

    Lisa Meloncon, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati

    J. Blake Scott, Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Central Florida

    Part I: Identifying Foundations

    Methodological Approaches to Medical Rhetoric: Creating a Collective Body of "Recognizable Knowledge"

    Amy R. Reed, Assistant Professor of Writing Arts at Rowan University

    Methodology and Disciplinary Identity: Rhetorical Research on Discourses of "Wellness"

    Colleen Derkatch, Assistant Professor of English at Ryerson University

    History, Method, and Medical Rhetoric

    Susan Wells, Professor of English at Temple University

    Medical Rhetoric Research Methodologies in Global Contexts

    Kirk St. Amant, Professor of English at East Carolina University

    Part II: Leveraging Rhetorical and Methodological Movement

    High Stakes, Stakeholders, and the Politics of Circulation: Studying the "Saving Knowledge" of Dr. Emma Walker’s Social Hygiene Lectures

    Daniel Ehrenfeld, Ph.D. Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

    Desire Lines and the "Unbowed Head": A Framework for Making Sense of Patient Noncompliance

    Catherine C. Gouge, Associate Professor of English at West Virginia University

    Infrastructural Methodology: Conceptual Tools for Medical and Health Discourse

    Nathan Johnson, Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Florida

    Medicalized GM Mosquitoes: A Topical Method for Understanding Non-Human Biological Agents in Disease Control Programs

    Molly Hartzog, Ph.D. Candidate in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media at North Carolina State University

    Inventing Life: Neurorhetorics at the Corner of Play and Experimentation

    David R. Gruber, Assistant Professor of English at the City University of Hong Kong

    Part III: Accounting for Materiality and Lived Experience

    Assemblage Mapping: A Medical Rhetoric Research Methodology

    Elizabeth L. Angeli, Assistant Professor of English at Towson University

    Medical Interiors: Materiality in Medical Rhetoric Research Methods

    Jennifer Stockwell, PhD Candidate in English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    Bringing the Body Back

    Lisa Meloncon, Associate Professor of Technical Communication at the University of Cincinnati

    Doctor Google and Health Literacy in Australia

    Angela T Ragusa, Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Charles Sturt University (Australia); Andrea Crampton, Senior Lecturer of Microbiology at Charles Sturt University (Australia)

    Rhetoric, Race, and Health Disparities Research in Communication Studies

    Kelly E. Happe, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia

    Part IV: Ethically Engaging Stakeholders

    Rhetorical Theory to Field Method: An Evolution of Rhetorical Listening

    Kristin Bivens, Assistant Professor of English at Harold Washington College

    Participatory Research: Giving a Voice

    Laura Pigozzi, Lecturer of Writing Studies, University of Minnesota

    Engaged Rhetorical Research in Global Health: A Qualitative Approach to Studying Transcultural Rhetoric in the Dominican Republic

    Rachel Bloom-Pojar, Assistant Professor of English, University of Dayton

    Ethical Research in "Health 2.0": Considerations for Scholars of Medical Rhetoric

    Alice Daer, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

    Dawn Opel, IHR Nexus Lab, Arizona State University

     

     

     

     

    Biography

    Lisa Meloncon is Associate Professor of Technical Writing at the University of South Florida. She is the founder and coordinator of the biennial Symposium for the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine. Her research in the rhetoric of health & medicine includes work with disability and embodiment, an historical study of vernacular healing, and understanding the impact of place on healthcare communication. 

    J. Blake Scott is Professor of Writing and Rhetoric and member of the Texts & Technology Ph.D. faculty at the University of Central Florida. His research in the rhetoric of health & medicine includes studies of HIV testing and prevention practices and of global pharmaceutical policy debates.