PDF-[READ]-Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field

The rhetoric of health and medicine RHM is a growing and vibrant area of inquiry incorporating scholars working across a variety of fields and disciplines While this makes it a source for rich and innovative scholarship this emerging field is in need of a guiding text that can bring together the disparate work spread across multiple disciplines and institutional spaces Rhetoric of Health and Medicine AsIs Theories and Approaches for the Field answers this call by providing an indepth and widereaching analysis of the state of the rhetoric of health and medicine and offering core concepts and critical theories to ground research moving forward   With a foreword by Judy Segal and in sections that address interdisciplinary perspectives representations of health and illness in online spaces and health activism and advocacy this volume proceeds in a unique format essays tackle these key topic areas through case studies ranging from food and its relation to public health to apps that track fertility to mental health and disability to racial disparities that exist in public health campaigns about sudden infant death syndrome SIDS The essays within each section are then followed by responses from prominent scholars in the rhetoric of health and medicineincluding John Lyne J Blake Scott and Lisa Keränenwho take on the central theme and discuss how the theory or concept under study can and should evolve in the next stages of research Unifying the essays is a consideration of RHM as a theoretical construct guiding research and thinking alongside the conceptual parameters that constitute what RHM is and can be in practice In asking questions about the role of rhetoricboth as analytic and productive frameworkin health and medicine this volume engages with broader theoretical and ethical concerns about our current healthcare system and how healthcare and medical issues circulate in all the social cultural economic and political aspects of our world  . Julie A. Oseid. University of St. Thomas School of Law. Minneapolis, MN. jaoseid@stthomas.edu. My knowledge about rhetoric. Abraham Lincoln - brevity. Kristen Tiscione. Thomas Jefferson - metaphor. Aristotle. Classroom. By. . Rebecca Torres Valdovinos. My Story. “Psychologists investigating perception are increasingly insistent that what is perceived depends upon the observer’s perceptual frame of reference”. . “the art of . persuasion”. 1. The art of speaking or writing . effectively. 2 . Writing, speaking or communicating as a means of . persuasion. .. RHETORIC. : . What is it?. Where do we see rhetoric in society today?. A Brief Introduction. Adapted from Stephen . Harmon and Stanislav . Rivkin . All Images argue something, just like written rhetoric. But unlike written rhetoric, visual rhetoric may be less straightforward. It might require additional analysis to understand the argument . . Opening questions . Opening questions . What is beauty?. Opening questions . What is beauty?. Where is it?. Opening questions . What is beauty?. Where is it?. What connects beauty and rhetoric?. Rhetoric and aesthetics. A Brief Introduction. Adapted from Stephen . Harmon and Stanislav . Rivkin . All Images argue something, just like written rhetoric. But unlike written rhetoric, visual rhetoric may be less straightforward. It might require additional analysis to understand the argument . . Metadiscourse. Robert T. Craig. University of Colorado Boulder. Robert.Craig@Colorado.edu. Presentation to Rhetoric in Society 4. Copenhagen, 17 January 2013. Studies of . metadiscursive. framing in public discourse can inform normative thinking about rhetorical citizenship.. American Deliberative Rhetoric. Lincoln. Kennedy. Obama. Australian Epideictic Rhetoric. Keating. Gillard. Middle Eastern Forensic Rhetoric. Netanyahu . Loach. Abraham, Barack, and John. American Deliberative Rhetoric. Mrs. Oualline. English I. Rhetoric is seriously EVERYWHERE. Whether you realize it or not, you are surrounded by RHETORIC!. (It’s really not as creepy as it sounds.). Billboards, Commercials, Ads. Magazines.  . Modern Rhetoric. Modern Rhetoric can best be defined by Kenneth Burke, who said “rhetoric is the ability to move bodies to action.”. Have you recently been in a friendly (or heated) debate with someone?. English 1301: Composition & Rhetoric I || D. Glen Smith, instructor. Definition. Rhetoric. —is the art of using language to . communicate effectively . and has been a major part of Western . education since . Classroom. By. . Rebecca Torres Valdovinos. My Story. “Psychologists investigating perception are increasingly insistent that what is perceived depends upon the observer’s perceptual frame of reference”. . Rhetoric is the . Art of Persuasive Language. Writers and speakers use Rhetoric to convince readers and listeners to . do something. or . to think something. .. Think of every time you want to get your way. You are using rhetoric without knowing it!. Rhetoric began 2500 years ago as the study of the . forms of communication and argument essential to public, political and legal life. in Ancient Greece. It has since evolved a rich and diverse body of research, texts, and pedagogies.