Methodologies for the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine

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

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

Colleen Derkatch, Assistant Professor of English at Ryerson University

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

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

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

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.