Roman Empire built for itself a rhetoric suited to its new condition, and that was to a great
extent epideictic rhetoric. We today may not look upon this development so sympathetically; …

As a function of industrialization, scientific revolution (s), and professional specialization,
contemporary culture is thoroughly reliant on experts. The idea of expertise serves as a …

Rhetoric in the Flesh is the first book-length ethnographic study of the gross anatomy lab to
explain how rhetorical discourses, multimodal displays, and embodied practices facilitate …

NCTE-CCCC Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication 2020 Rhetorical Work in
Emergency Medical Services: Communicating in the Unpredictable Workplace details how …

The global financial crisis has led to a surprising interest in professional oaths in business.
Examples are the MBA Oath (Harvard Business School), the Economist's Oath (George …

Early modern Russians preferred one method of treating the sick above all others:
prescribing drugs. The Moscow court sourced pharmaceuticals from Asia, Africa, Western …

This article offers a longitudinal computational-rhetorical analysis of biomedical writing on
opioids. Using a corpus of 1,467 articles and essays published in the New England Journal …

The rhetoric of health and medicine has only begun to intervene in health pedagogy. In
contrast, the medical humanities has spearheaded curriculum to address dehumanizing …

[First para.]:" When the editors of UTMJ introduced the journal's new “Philosophy and
Medicine” section in December 2003, they explained that its purpose was “to provide a …

Should, and could, the rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) develop a professional
disciplinary code of ethics? In this commentary, I argue that RHM has special need for a …