Technical Communication Quarterly Jul 2021 OA PDF

Reimagining the Boundaries of Health and Medical Discourse in Technical Communication

Erin A. Frost East Carolina University ; Laura Gonzales University of Florida ; Marie E. Moeller ; GPat Patterson ; Cecilia D. Shelton University of Maryland, College Park

Abstract

In this introduction, we emphasize the urgency of centering bodyminds and communities whose lives and experiences have been disregarded, or viewed as disposable, in medical and technical communication. With an expansive vision of health, we set the interdisciplinary stage for authors who answer the call of multiply-marginalized scholars working in (and beyond) medical rhetorics to reimagine health-related research that centers the perspectives, experiences, and embodied realities of multiply-marginalized communities (Jones, 2020; Walton, Moore, Jones 2019).

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2021-07-03
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10.1080/10572252.2021.1931457
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