Dear Colleagues,
*Rhetoric of Health and Medicine’s *new, special issue on rural health is
out now! “Down Home, Down the Street’: Examining Rural Health in the
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine” is edited by Justiss Wilder Burry and
Melissa Stone. Pieces in this special issue cover topics such as the role
of libraries and librarians in rural health settings, search engine
optimization and digital coercion related to abortion care in rural search
results, barriers for perinatal mental health care in rural contexts, the
ideological and historical factors influencing mental health disparities
related to farmers, and the material-discursive factors related to health
disparities in unincorporated rural communities on the U.S.-Mexico border,
*colonias*. This special issue also includes a dialogue between rural
health practitioners and rhetoric scholars.
Thank you to all of our contributors: Sarah E. Ryan, Sarah A. Evans, Ava
Marshall, Allison Rowland, W. Ordeman, Rebecca Kuehl, Jenn Anderson,
Stephanie Hanson, Cynthia Ryan, Kari J. Lundgren, David Beard, Zomi Bloom,
Connor Burke, Erin Brock Carlson, Catherine Gouge, Joshua Jordan, Brandon
Rogers, Abby Sirek, and Asha S. Winfield.
Read the issue here: https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/issue/view/404
Happy reading!
Annika
*Annika Reitenga*, she/they
Assistant Editor, *Rhetoric of Health and Medicine*
PhD Candidate, University of Louisville
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