Hi everyone,
Issue 9.2 of Rhetoric of Health and Medicine is out now! In their introduction, "Tackling Rare Disease Globally," co-editors Kim Hensley Owens and Fernando Sánchez discuss the barriers created for global communities due to English becoming the unofficial lingua franca of science. They discuss the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Resolution on Rare Diseases, which appears to broaden the range of countries contributing to rare disease research. Owens and Sánchez note that, through the work of local and global rare disease advocacy groups, "we may come closer to seeing more research on rare disease come from various parts of the world that can speak to various non-English speaking constituencies" (124).
The articles in RHM 9.2 include expansions of our understandings of reproductive-health issues especially as they relate to communication with pregnant woman and specifically older mothers, eating disorder recovery and techne, and revisiting medical debates over transexuality in the mid 20th century, analyzing arguments based psyche and soma frameworks.
Thank you to all contributors: Melissa L. Carrion, Molly McConnell, Samantha J. Rippetoe, V. Jo Hsu, Justiss Wilder Burry, Maggie Hart, and Clare Frances Kennedy.
The full issue can be found at: https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/issue/view/437.
Happy reading,
Annika
Annika Reitenga (she/they)
Assistant Editor, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
PhD Candidate, University of Louisville
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