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; …

A review of work being published in our journals establishes that we most often think of
ourselves as passive intellectuals, engaged in critical reflection about rhetorics of science …

This essay analyzes and contrasts the rhetorical appeals of Breast Cancer Action and Breast
Cancer Fund, the two national breast cancer organizations devoted to prevention and …

This chapter interrogates how silencing in scientific communication can go unexamined.
Using a Black feminist framework, I present two ways that silencing in science …

The COVID-19 pandemic has augmented discourses of individual citizen responsibility for
collective health. This article explores how British Columbia, Canada's widely praised …

In recent years, outbreaks such as H1N1 have prompted heightened efforts to manage the
risk of infection. These efforts often involve the endorsement of personal responsibility for …

My dissertation examines the significance of public health messaging to perceptions of
responsibility and risk. Central to this research is my view of public health campaigns as …

Pop cultural texts have long included social and political commentary and thus make
significant sites for rhetorical analysis. Luke Winslow argues that pop cultural artifacts are …

Currently the entire world is being gravely affected by the deadly coronavirus (SARS-CoV-
2). As rhetoric cannot be detached from material and discursive circumstances, and …

I began this book by asserting that defining and diagnosing disease is a kind of quixotic
empiricism. In each chapter, I've tried to unpack such a paradox by describing biomedical …