Recent Readings in STS
I’ve been reading pretty voraciously over the past two months and as such, I’ve not had time to keep up with my book reviews. So this is a catch up …
RSA Recap
I’ve just returned a few days ago from the Rhetoric Society of American conference in beautiful Minneapolis, Mn (May28-31). I also attended the Association for the Rhetoric of Science and …
Dissertation Defense
Just for fun I thought I’d post my dissertation defense notes. —————————————————————————— Rhetorics of pain: Agency and regulation in the medical-industrial complex Disciplinary Project Rhetoric of science → Rhetoric of …
Part II: Field atomization
This post continues the previous post. Though it’s not strictly necessary to read both to catch the tenor of my argument, it might help. As I mentioned in my last …
Summer reading
The following is an abbreviated version of my summer reading list. But More importantly, I’m playing with Zotero (recently installed and much enjoyed). Cambrosio, A., Keating, P., Schlich, T., & …
Morris, D. B. (1991). The Culture of Pain. Berkeley: UCal Press
David B. Morris’ The Culture of Pain (1991) offers the reader a wide reaching exploration of medical and cultural approaches to pain and its management. Foundational to his book is …
Dumit, J. (2004). Picturing personhood: Brain scans and biomedical identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans are currently used by the popular press and the entertainment industry to provoke great excitement. This mysterious and fantastic technology is (seemingly) able to probe …
Segal, J. Z. (1993). Strategies of influence in medical authorship. Social Science and Medicine, 37(4), 521-530.
In “Strategies of Influence in Medical Authorship,” Judy Z. Segal explores the rhetoric of medical authorship through the lens of three Aristotelian canons, invention, style, and delivery. After a justification …
Starr, P. (1982). The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of vast industry. USA: Basic Books.
In The Social Transformation of American Medicine, Paul Starr offers the reader a sweeping, thorough, and detailed history of the American medical profession. Book One interrogates American medicine’s establishment of …
Cali, D. D. & Estrada, C. (1999). The medical interview as rhetorical counterpart of the case presentation. Health Communication, 11(4), 355-373.
In “The Medical Interview as Rhetorical Counterpart of the Case Presentation,” Dennis Cali and Carlos Estrada conduct a “macrocommunication analysis” reviewing then-recent genre-studies of case presentations and medical interviews. The …