Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Apr 2026 Open Access

To Recover is to Relearn: Techne and Eating Disorder Recovery

Molly McConnell Syracuse University

Abstract

In this article, the author uses the rhetorical concept of techne, here understood as a repeated engagement involving mind and body, to understand eating disorder recovery. The article relies on posts from the subreddit r/fuckeatingdisorders and personal story to explain how the behaviors and mindsets described by the posts are considered techne, and how recovery itself is an exercise in learning and relearning. This learning and relearning, also seen as the development of techne, is connected to deeper ontological claims about what it means to live in a body and recover in said body.

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Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
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2026-04-01
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10.5744/rhm.2026.2989
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