Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Agenda for Pandemic Rhetoric | Allison L. Rowland, Emily Winderman, and Jennifer Malkowski
Part 1. Pre-existing and Chronic
Covid and Racialized Myths: Pre-existing Conditions and the Invisible Traces of White Supremacy | Raquel M. Robvais
Covid and Environmental Atmospheres: Pulmonary Publics and Our Shared Air | Sara DiCaglio
Covid and Science Denialism: The Rhetorical Foundations of US Anti- Masking Discourse | Kurt Zemlicka
Covid and Vaccine Hesitancy: Tracing the Tuskegee-Covid Straw Man Fallacy as a History Presently Unfolding | Veronica Joyner and Heidi Y. Lawrence
Part 2. Essential and Disposable
Covid and Essential Workers: Medical Crises and the Rhetorical Strategies of Disposability | Marina Levina
Covid and Being a Doctor: Physicians’ Published Narratives as Crisis Archive | Molly Margaret Kessler, Michael Aylward, and Bernard Trappey
Covid and Fatphobia: How Rhetorics of Disposability Render Fat Bodies Unworthy of Care and Life | Hailey Nicole Otis
Covid and Intersex: In/Essential Medical Management, Celeste E. Orr
Part 3. Remedy and Resistance
Covid and Shared Black Health: Rethinking Nonviolence in the Dual Pandemics | DiArron M.
Covid and Masking: Race, Dress, and Addressivity | Angela Nurse and Diane Keeling
Covid and Disability: Tactical Responses to Normative Vaccine Communication in Appalachia | Julie Gerdes, Priyanka Ganguly, and Luana Shafer
Covid and Doubt: An Emergent Structure of Feeling | Jeffrey A. Bennett
Contributors