Neurorhetorics

Drawing on the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of rhetorical study, Neurorhetorics questions how discourses about the brain construct neurological differences, such as mental illness or intelligence measures. This book was originally published as a special issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly.

Jordynn Jack is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. She is author of Science on the Home Front: American Women Scientists in World War II (2010), and has written for journals including Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Speech and Rhetoric Review.

1. Introduction: What are Neurorhetorics? Jordynn Jack 2. "This is Your Brain on Rhetoric": Research Directions for Neurorhetorics Jordynn Jack and L. Gregory Appelbaum 3. The Neuroscience of Rhetoric: Identification, Mirror Neurons, and Making The Many Appear David Gruber 4. Response: Toward a Rhetoric of Cognition Daniel M. Gross 5. Whatever Happened to the Cephalic Index? The Reality of Race and the Burden of Proof John P. Jackson Jr. 6. The Skeleton on the Couch: The Eagleton Affair, Rhetorical Disability, and the Stigma of Mental Illness Jenell Johnson 7. The Genre of the Mood Memoir and the Ethos of Psychiatric Disability Katie Rose Guest Pryal