S. Scott Graham conducts research and teaches in the rhetoric and professional communication program at Iowa State University. There he studies rhetorics of technoscience and medicine with Iowa State’s Rhetoric of Science and Technology Work Group. Scott has particular interests in agency theory, theories of socio-political change, actor-network theory, and new media studies. His current research explores communicative conflicts and argumentative practices in the intersections among scientific research and regulatory policy. Currently, he is exploring these issues through inquiry into two different cases: 1) the FDA-pain science interface and 2) the community government-agronomy interface.
Scott’s dissertation, Rhetorics of Pain: Agency and Regulation in the Medical Industrial-Complex, (directed by Carl G. Herndl and successfully defended on May 5th, 2010), chronicles two years of ethnographic research into an interdisciplinary activist pain management organization. Scott explores the rhetoric of this organization as its members attempt to forge cross-disciplinary alliances in the face of profound incommensurability and endeavor to change the theoretical foundation of Western biomedicine and the regulatory policies of the FDA.
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S. Scott Graham conducts research and teaches in the rhetoric and professional communication program at Iowa State University. There he studies rhetorics of technoscience and medicine with Iowa State’s Rhetoric of Science and Technology Work Group. Scott has particular interests in agency theory, theories of socio-political change, actor-network theory, and new media studies. His current research explores communicative conflicts and argumentative practices in the intersections among scientific research and regulatory policy. Currently, he is exploring these issues through inquiry into two different cases: 1) the FDA-pain science interface and 2) the community government-agronomy interface.
Scott’s dissertation, Rhetorics of Pain: Agency and Regulation in the Medical Industrial-Complex, (directed by Carl G. Herndl and successfully defended on May 5th, 2010), chronicles two years of ethnographic research into an interdisciplinary activist pain management organization. Scott explores the rhetoric of this organization as its members attempt to forge cross-disciplinary alliances in the face of profound incommensurability and endeavor to change the theoretical foundation of Western biomedicine and the regulatory policies of the FDA.