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"He Comes of a Soldier Breed": The Anglo-Boer War, Imperial Health, and the Rise of the Medical Inspection in British Schools
No full text"Our Life is Like a Candle Flame": Urdu Tropes and Muslim Consciousness in Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi
No full text"Swallowing for Twenty Years/the American Mind and Body": An Interview with G. S. Sharat Chandra
No full textStephen David Ousley (1961-2022)
No full textDr. Steve Ousley—in full, Stephen David Ousley, PhD—American biological anthropologist, data analyst, general contrarian, and well-known beer aficionado, was at the forefront of forensic and biological anthropology. He was a quantitative star in the anthropological universe. On 6 November 2022, Steve succumbed to cancer, leaving behind a legacy of courage and dedication. His impact on the field of biological anthropology will be remembered for generations to come. Colleagues, friends, and family alike will always hold him dear in their hearts, celebrating his accomplishments and the unwavering spirit with which he approached life. Steve’s life and legacy serve as an inspiring reminder of the power of determination, perseverance, and dedication. His contributions to forensic anthropology and his dedication to friends and family exemplify the depth of his character. Although he is no longer with us, his legacy lives on through his work, the lives he touched, and the memories he left behind
Elder Abuse in Forensic Anthropology: A Case Study
No full textThis case study reviews the use of forensic anthropology in the investigation of elder abuse. The objectives of this article are to (1) review the minimal literature related to elder abuse in the forensic anthropology and bioarchaeological record, highlighting the importance of the healing continuum and pathological influences; (2) outline the theoretical frameworks that can be applied to forensic anthropological research into elder abuse; and (3) highlight a case study of elder abuse identifying the key features, including the quantity of fractures and the refracturing consistent with long-term, repetitive patterns. The results of this case study show the application of skeletal trauma analysis in assisting the investigation of elder abuse and the need for further related research
“Let’s Get a Little Bit Aboriginal, Shall We?”: Transforming Cultural Appropriation into Spiritual Wellness via the Neohealthism of KINRGY
No full textCelebrity-driven wellness ventures are pervasive and often spearheaded by white women, resulting in white-centric health guidance. One such venture is KINRGY, a workout and lifestyle method created by professional dancer Julianne Hough that regularly appropriates and exploits Eastern, Aboriginal, and BIPOC cultural practices. Through a critical rhetorical interrogation of the workout videos and Instagram feed of KINRGY, we assess how this method relies on cultural appropriation and New Age Orientalism to situate spirituality as the crux of universal health, thus establishing a reconfiguration of healthism into what we call “neohealthism”—a phenomenon that further obfuscates structural constraints on health, and expands the individual imperatives of healthful choices by placing metaphysical considerations on consumers’ shoulders. We theorize neohealthism through the following themes: the consumption of the Other via cultural exploitation, the question of expertise in spiritual leadership, and the intensified neoliberal imperatives that individualize health and wellness for self and the universe.
Just Follow the (Ten) Steps: Breastfeeding Education in Baby-Friendly Hospitals
No full textThis study investigates infant feeding rhetoric from the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), a World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) partnership that prioritizes exclusive breastfeeding. The study approaches patient education materials as user documentation and analyzes the materials for kairos and metaphor. The author argued that the materials function as documentation for the birthing parent’s body operating within the system of the BFHI. The article concludes with recommendations for future research and for creating infant feeding resources that provide critical access to the healthcare system by rejecting the body-as-machine metaphor and reflecting families’ diverse situations, not just the situation of the U.S. healthcare system or BFHI.
Standardizing Genres in Biomedicine
No full textReporting guidelines have emerged in recent years as a critical site of deliberation and intervention for stakeholders in the biomedical community. These texts have historically been used to formulate standards for quality reporting and bring consistency to processes of writing and publication; they also operate as a space in which practitioners promote values, define expectations, and coordinate action in line with established standards and practices in the field. Drawing on scholarship in rhetoric and genre studies, this article examines how reporting guidelines contribute to the standardization of writing and publishing activity in biomedicine, functioning both as semi-procedural documents that take part in the “genre-ing” of published research and as public displays of and arguments for accountability that can be used to regulate the work of knowledge making over time. I conclude by discussing how rhetoricians might use reporting guidelines as a strategic locus for conceptualizing and potentially shaping research and writing activity in different areas of health and medicine
Methodologies and Inequities: Participatory and Narrative Approaches to Research with Marginalized Communities
No full textIn this commentary, we reflect on a study investigating how young people living with HIV navigated the COVID-19 pandemic and offer concrete methodological approaches to studying health inequity. We describe how participatory and narrative-based methods helped us develop five specific study protocols that reflected our commitments to equity in research: revising questions to account for local conditions of risk; intervening in histories of extractive research practices leveraged against communities at the margins; phrasing demographic questions to account for the complexity of identity; incorporating consent iteratively across the study; and offering incentives that were consistent with participants’ expertise of their own lived experiences. We use these reflections to further ongoing conversations about integrating equity into rhetorically inflected health research.
Durability, Portability, and Responsivity in Rhetorics of Health and Medicine (RHM): : A Scoping Study of RHM Research (2006–2020)
No full textThis essay reports results from a scoping study of recent rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) research published in article form prior to the emergence of the subfield’s stand-alone journal, Rhetoric of Health & Medicine (RHM). Our corpus consists of 250 articles published between 2006 and 2020 across eight journals. Drawing on findings from our scoping study, we review RHM researchers’ methodological and evidential choices, which provides a baseline to which we can compare the next generation of RHM research. Such comparisons should illuminate the strides RHM has taken to improve our research’s durability, portability, and responsivity to matters of critical import. Finally, we conclude with an invitation to other researchers to continue scoping studies such as this one by adapting our analytic protocol and updating or expanding our corpus, both of which we make available to readers