Rhetoric of Health and Medicine

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August 2025

  1. Review of PCOS Discourses, Symbolic Impacts, and Feminist Rhetorical Disruptions of Institutional Hegemonies. Marissa C. McKinley, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. 162 pages, $95.00 hardback, $45.00 ebook. Publisher’s webpage:
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    PCOS Discourses, Symbolic Impacts, and Feminist Rhetorical Disruptions of Institutional Hegemonies. Marissa C. McKinley, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. 162 pages, $95.00 hardback, $45.00 ebook. Publisher’s webpage: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666905519/PCOS-Discourses-Symbolic-Impacts-and-Feminist-Rhetorical-Disruptions-of-Institutional-Hegemonies.

    doi:10.5744/rhm.2025.3044
  2. Review of The End of Genre: Curations and Experiments in Intentional Discourses, Brenton Faber. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. 244 pages, $99 eBook, $129 softcover; $129 hardcover.
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    The End of Genre: Curations and Experiments in Intentional Discourses, Brenton Faber. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. 244 pages, $99 eBook, $129 softcover; $129 hardcover. Publisher webpage: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-08747-9

    doi:10.5744/rhm.2025.3045

January 2023

  1. Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel
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    Review of Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice. Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, New York: NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 484 pages. $30.00 hardcover, $20.00 trade paperback, $14.99 e-book.

    doi:10.5744/rhm.2023.6007
  2. Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty by Christa Teston
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    Review of Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty. By Christa Teston. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. 256 pages. $35.00 paper.

    doi:10.5744/rhm.2023.6006

June 2022

  1. The Biopolitics of Public Health Trust: Embodied Risk and the COVID-19 Pandemic
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    Review Essay of the following RHM Books: Lawrence, Heidi Yoston. (2020). Vaccine rhetorics. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press. pp. 172. Hardcover $99.95.    Pender, Kelly. (2018). Being at genetic risk: Toward a rhetoric of care. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 184. Hardcover $69.95.     Rowland, Allison L. (2020). Zoetropes and the politics of humanhood. Columbus: OH: The Ohio State University Press. pp. 190. Hardcover $99.95.

    doi:10.5744/rhm.2022.5023

April 2022

  1. Review of Translanguaging Outside the Academy: Negotiating Rhetoric and Healthcare in the Spanish Caribbean by Rachel Bloom-Pojar
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    Review of Translanguaging Outside the Academy; Negotiating Rhetoric and Healthcare in the Spanish Caribbean, Rachel Bloom-Pojar, Urbana, Illinois: Conference on College Composition and Communication/National Council of Teachers of English, 2018. 161 pages, $29.99.

    doi:10.5744/rhm.2022.5006

March 2022

  1. Review of "Diagnosing Madness: The Discursive Construction of the Psychiatric Patient, 1850-1920"
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    Review of: Diagnosing Madness: The Discursive Construction of the Psychiatric Patient, 1850–1920. Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and Carol Berkenkotter. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2019. 192 pages, $49.99 paperback, $49.99 e-book. Publisher webpage: https://www.sc.edu/uscpress/books/2019/6025.html

    doi:10.5744/rhm.2021.5000
  2. Review of "You’re Doing It Wrong!: Mothering, Media, and Medical Expertise"
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    Review of: You’re Doing It Wrong!: Mothering, Media, and Medical Expertise. Bethany L. Johnson & Margaret M. Quinlan. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2019. 259 pages, $29.95 paperback, $99.95 cloth, $29.95 PDF, $29.95 EPUB. Publisher webpage: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/youre-doing-it-wrong/9780813593784

    doi:10.5744/rhm.2021.6000

August 2021

  1. A Review of Women's Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century
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    Review of: White-Farnham, J., Siegel Finer, B., & Molloy, C. (Eds.) (2020). Women's health advocacy: Rhetorical ingeniuty for the 21st century. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429201165

    doi:10.5744/rhm.2021.4rev

July 2020

  1. Review of Kelly Pender's "Being at Genetic Risk: Toward a Rhetoric of Care"
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    Being at Genetic Risk: Toward a Rhetoric of Care. Kelly Pender. University Park, PA, The Pennsylvania State Press, 2018. 174 pages, $69.95 hardcover. Publisher webpage: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-08212-7.html

    doi:10.5744/rhm.2020.1019

March 2020

  1. Book Review - Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services: Communicating in the Unpredictable Workplace
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    A Review of Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services: Communicating in the Unpredictable Workplace Marissa C. McKinley Rhetorical Work in Emergency Medical Services: Communicating in the Unpredictable Workplace. By Elizabeth L. Angeli. New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. 204 pages, $47.95 paper, $23.98 e-book.

    doi:10.5744/rhm.2020.1006
  2. Book Review - Bounding Biomedicine: Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of Alternative Medicine
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    A Review of Bounding Biomedicine: Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of Alternative Medicine J. Blake Scott Bounding Biomedicine: Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of Alternative Medicine. By Colleen Derkatch. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 238 pages. $55 cloth; $10 e-book.

    doi:10.5744/rhm.2020.1005