Socially Shaping the Field's Identity through "RHM"

J. Blake Scott; Lisa Melonçon

doi:10.5744/rhm.2018.1011

Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Dec 2018 Open Access

Socially Shaping the Field's Identity through "RHM"

J. Blake Scott University of Central Florida ; Lisa Melonçon University of South Florida

Abstract

In the introduction to the inaugural double issue, we presented our vision for RHM’s ethos as a dwelling place (Hyde, 2004) for those doing rhetorically oriented work in health and medicine, and as an ambassadorial site for demonstrating how rhetorical study in all of its forms can inform the work of health and medicine’s wider stakeholders and practices. In this introduction, we aim to extend this call by imagining the journal as a site for building a community of practice, which, according to Etienne Wenger and Beverly Wenger-Trayner (2015), can be defined as “a group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do, and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly” (para 1). This theory of social learning includes the three “modes of identification”1 (Wenger, 2010)—namely engagement, alignment, and imagination—through which the journal helps shape the identity of the now-emerged community of RHM scholars.

Journal: Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
Published: 2018-12-11
DOI: 10.5744/rhm.2018.1011
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