Contents
Foreword
Judy Segal
Introduction The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is
Lisa Melonçon, S. Scott Graham, Jenell Johnson, and John Lynch
Section 1 Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Chapter 1 Health Humanities as an Interdisciplinary Intervention: Constitutive Rhetoric, Genre, and Health Citizenship
Colleen Derkatch and Philippa Spoel
Chapter 2 Mediating Minds: Disability Studies and the Rhetoric of Mental Health
Drew Holladay and Margaret Price
Chapter 3 From HeLa Cells to Henrietta Lacks: Rehumanization and Pathos as Interventions for the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
Emily Winderman and Jamie Landau
RESPONSE TO INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Mapping the Healthscape: Onto, Eco, and Otherwise
John Lyne
Section 2 Representations and Online Health
Chapter 4 Enactments of Self: Studying Binaries and Boundaries in Autoimmunity
Molly Kessler
Chapter 5 “Did you have sex today?”: Discourses of Pregnancy and Big Data in Fertility-Tracking Apps
Amanda Friz and Stacey Overholt
Chapter 6 Theorizing Chronicity: Rhetoric, Representation, and Identification, on Pinterest
Sarah Ann Singer and Jordynn Jack
RESPONSE TO REPRESENTATIONS AND ONLINE HEALTH An Analytic of and Beyond Representation for the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
J. Blake Scott
Section 3 Health Citizenship and Advocacy
Chapter 7 Rhetoric as Rhetorical Health Citizenship: Rhetorical Agency, Public Deliberation, and Health Citizenship as Rhetorical Forms
Rebecca Kuehl, Sara Drury, and Jennifer Anderson
Chapter 8 Challenging Racial Disparities: The Advocacy of Social Justice
Jennifer Helene Maher
Chapter 9 Decolonizing Medical Discourse through Promotora Practices in Community Health
Amy C. Hickman
Chapter 10 Medical Interpretation As/Is a Rhetorical Approach to Health Care
Rachel Bloom-Pojar and Laura Gonzales
RESPONSE TO HEALTH CITIZENSHIP AND ADVOCACY On Seeing Health Rhetorics as Deliberation, Power, and Resistance
Lisa B. Keränen
Afterword Perspectives on the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is Past, Present, and Future
Cynthia Ryan, Barbara Heifferon, and T. Kenny Fountain
List of Contributors
Index