This article considers how anthropologists and other social scientists examine biosecurity as
an object in the making. It suggests that scholars encountered this object in research …

In US security culture, motherhood is a site of intense contestation--both a powerful form of
cultural currency and a target of unprecedented assault. Linked by an atmosphere of crisis …

A discussion of the benefits and pitfalls of citizen science—scientific undertakings that make
use of public participation and crowd-sourced data collection James Wynn's timely …

This essay argues that rhetoricians of health of medicine should continue to carve out an
expansive focus on the exigencies, functions, and impacts of health-related discourse; …

News media play a crucial role during infectious disease outbreaks because they shape
people's understanding of not only the disease itself but also the meaning of living in a 'risk …

In this conceptual article with illustrative data, we suggest that it is useful to rank island
nations as potential refuges for ensuring long‐term human survival in the face of …

The essays in Science and the Internet address the timely topic of how digital tools are
shaping science communication. Featuring chapters by leading scholars of the rhetoric of …

This volume provides an essential roster of primary research methods as they apply to
health communication inquiry. Editor Bryan B. Whaley brings together key health …

I argue that the commonplace suturing of images of the COVID-19 pandemic to the genre of
the zombie apocalypse signals the manner in which the figure of the zombie excites a …

The growing fear of an emerging pandemic has facilitated efforts in infection control, where
new technologies and laws have been introduced nationally and at the level of WHO. This …