Methodologies for the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine

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).

Lisa Meloncon is Associate Professor of Technical Writing at the University of South Florida. She is the founder and coordinator of the biennial Symposium for the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine. Her research in the rhetoric of health & medicine includes work with disability and embodiment, an historical study of vernacular healing, and understanding the impact of place on healthcare communication. J. Blake Scott is Professor of Writing and Rhetoric and member of the Texts & Technology Ph.D. faculty at the University of Central Florida. His research in the rhetoric of health & medicine includes studies of HIV testing and prevention practices and of global pharmaceutical policy debates.

Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Contributors Chapter 1: Manifesting Methodologies for the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine J. Blake Scott and Lis Meloncon Chapter 2: Historical Work in the Discourses of Health and Medicine Susan Wells and Nathan Stormer Chapter 3: Ecological Investments and the Circulation of Rhetoric: Studying the "Saving Knowledge" of Dr Emma Walker's Social Hygiene Lectures Dan Ehrenfeld Chapter 4: Infrastructural Methodology: A Case in Protein as Public Health Nathan R. Johnson Chapter 5: Health Communication Methodology and Race Kelly E. Happe Chapter 6: Bringing the Body Back Through Performative Phenomenology Lisa Meloncon Chapter 7: "No Single Path": Desire Lines and Divergent Pathographies in Health and Medicine Catherine C. Gouge Chapter 8: Rhetorically Listening for Microwithdrawals of Consent in Research Practice Kristin M. Bivens Chapter 9: Medical Interiors: Materiality and Spatiality in Medical Rhetoric Research Methods Jennifer Edwell Chapter 10: Ethical Research in "Health 2.0": Considerations for Scholars of Medical Rhetoric Dawn S. Opel Chapter 11: Negotiating Informed Consent: Bueno aconsejar, major remediar (it is good to give advice, but it is better to solve the problem) Laura Maria Pigozzi Chapter 12: Translingual Rhetorical Engagement in Transcultural Health Spaces Rachel Bloom-Pojar Chapter 13: Assemblage Mapping: A Research Methodology for Rhetoricians of Health and Medicine Elizabeth L. Angeli Chapter 14: Medicalized Mosquitoes: Rhetorical Invention in Genetic Engineering for Disease Control Molly Hartzog Chapter 15: Experiments in Rhetoric: Invention and Neurorhetorical Play David R. Gruber