ABSTRACT
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:
- Develop, through extended examples of research, creative theories and methodologies for studying and engaging medicine’s high-stakes practices.
- Provide thick descriptions of and heuristics for methodological invention and adaptation that meet the needs of needs of new and established researchers.
- Discuss approaches to researching health and medical rhetorics across a range of contexts (e.g., historical, transnational, socio-cultural, institutional) and about a range of ethical issues (e.g., agency, social justice, responsiveness).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|20 pages
Ecological Investments and the Circulation of Rhetoric
Studying the “Saving Knowledge” of Dr. Emma Walker’s Social Hygiene Lectures
chapter 11|19 pages
Negotiating Informed Consent
Bueno aconsejar, mejor remediar (it is good to give advice, but it is better to solve the problem)
chapter 13|26 pages
Assemblage Mapping
A Research Methodology for Rhetoricians of Health and Medicine
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chapter 14|15 pages
Medicalized Mosquitoes
Rhetorical Invention in Genetic Engineering for Disease Control
