Full Description
Covid and . . . How To Do Rhetoric in a Pandemic is among the first edited collections to consider how rhetoric shapes Covid's disease trajectory. Arguing that the circulation of any virus must be understood in tandem with the public communication accompanying it, this collection converses with interdisciplinary stakeholders also committed to the project of social wellness during pandemic times. With inventive ways of thinking about structural inequities in health, these essays showcase the forces that pandemic rhetoric exerts across health conditions, politics, and histories of social injustice.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Agenda for Pandemic Rhetoric | Allison L. Rowland, Emily Winderman, and Jennifer Malkowski
Part 1. Pre-existing and Chronic
Covid and Racialized Myths: Pre-existing Conditions and the Invisible Traces of White Supremacy | Raquel M. Robvais
Covid and Environmental Atmospheres: Pulmonary Publics and Our Shared Air | Sara DiCaglio
Covid and Science Denialism: The Rhetorical Foundations of US Anti- Masking Discourse | Kurt Zemlicka
Covid and Vaccine Hesitancy: Tracing the Tuskegee-Covid Straw Man Fallacy as a History Presently Unfolding | Veronica Joyner and Heidi Y. Lawrence
Part 2. Essential and Disposable
Covid and Essential Workers: Medical Crises and the Rhetorical Strategies of Disposability | Marina Levina
Covid and Being a Doctor: Physicians' Published Narratives as Crisis Archive | Molly Margaret Kessler, Michael Aylward, and Bernard Trappey
Covid and Fatphobia: How Rhetorics of Disposability Render Fat Bodies Unworthy of Care and Life | Hailey Nicole Otis
Covid and Intersex: In/Essential Medical Management, Celeste E. Orr
Part 3. Remedy and Resistance
Covid and Shared Black Health: Rethinking Nonviolence in the Dual Pandemics | DiArron M.
Covid and Masking: Race, Dress, and Addressivity | Angela Nurse and Diane Keeling
Covid and Disability: Tactical Responses to Normative Vaccine Communication in Appalachia | Julie Gerdes, Priyanka Ganguly, and Luana Shafer
Covid and Doubt: An Emergent Structure of Feeling | Jeffrey A. Bennett
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