Routledge
314 pages
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:
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Contributors
Chapter 1: Manifesting Methodologies for the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
J. Blake Scott and Lis Meloncon
Chapter 2: Historical Work in the Discourses of Health and Medicine
Susan Wells and Nathan Stormer
Chapter 3: Ecological Investments and the Circulation of Rhetoric: Studying the "Saving Knowledge" of Dr Emma Walker’s Social Hygiene Lectures
Dan Ehrenfeld
Chapter 4: Infrastructural Methodology: A Case in Protein as Public Health
Nathan R. Johnson
Chapter 5: Health Communication Methodology and Race
Kelly E. Happe
Chapter 6: Bringing the Body Back Through Performative Phenomenology
Lisa Meloncon
Chapter 7: "No Single Path": Desire Lines and Divergent Pathographies in Health and Medicine
Catherine C. Gouge
Chapter 8: Rhetorically Listening for Microwithdrawals of Consent in Research Practice
Kristin M. Bivens
Chapter 9: Medical Interiors: Materiality and Spatiality in Medical Rhetoric Research Methods
Jennifer Edwell
Chapter 10: Ethical Research in "Health 2.0": Considerations for Scholars of Medical Rhetoric
Dawn S. Opel
Chapter 11: Negotiating Informed Consent: Bueno aconsejar, major remediar (it is good to give advice, but it is better to solve the problem)
Laura Maria Pigozzi
Chapter 12: Translingual Rhetorical Engagement in Transcultural Health Spaces
Rachel Bloom-Pojar
Chapter 13: Assemblage Mapping: A Research Methodology for Rhetoricians of Health and Medicine
Elizabeth L. Angeli
Chapter 14: Medicalized Mosquitoes: Rhetorical Invention in Genetic Engineering for Disease Control
Molly Hartzog
Chapter 15: Experiments in Rhetoric: Invention and Neurorhetorical Play
David R. Gruber