<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Colleagues, </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">If you were intrigued by the <b>CFP for the 2021 special issue of the <i>Rhetoric of Health and Medicine</i></b> journal on <b>Chronicity </b>but did not have time to pull together a proposal by the deadline, we have good news for you:</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">The <b>deadline</b> for proposals has been <b>extended!</b> 500 to 850 word proposals (not including citations) are now due by <b>March 31, 2020</b> with decisions to authors by <b>April 14, 2020. </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Full details are below as well as on the <a href="http://medicalrhetoric.com/cfp-special-issue-of-rhm-chronicity/">RHM blog</a>. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Help us spread the word! Send in your ideas!</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Most Sincerely,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">RHM Assistant Editors </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
(RHM) Special Issue on the Rhetoric of Chronicity</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Guest
Editors Lora Arduser and Jeff Bennett</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">According to the Centers for
Disease Control (CDC, 2019), 6 in 10 adults in the United States has a chronic
disease and 4 in 10 have two or more chronic conditions. By 2020, this number
is projected to grow to an estimated 157 million, with 81 million having
multiple conditions (Lancet, 2009; National Health Council, 2014). These
illnesses have become the leading causes of death and disability in the U.S.
and cost $3.3 trillion annually in health care costs. As such, chronic illness
is one of the major health crises of the 21<sup>st</sup> century. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">This exigence suggests that we’re
not only at a pivotal point in how health care is delivered—focusing on
long-term rather than acute issues—but how and when we communicate about
health. These material and discursive conditions surrounding chronic illness
and chronic care </span>are connected to larger rhetorical concerns. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">How
chronic diseases and conditions get rhetorically defined as “chronic” and who
has the power to make these definitions have ramifications about how both
individuals with chronic illnesses and rhetorical scholars engage with “chronicity.”
These engagements--from personal healthcare management to patient advocacy
efforts to medical protocols and research--highlight tensions around rhetorical
definitions of agency, power, and identity.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Current
scholarship in RHM </span>has taken up chronic illness as a topic (see, for
example, <span style="color:black">Arduser, 2017; Bennett, 2019;
Emmons, 2010; Graham, 2015),</span> but it has been distributed across a number
of books and journals and typically focused on single illnesses, such as HIV/AIDS
(Bennet, 2009), diabetes (Arduser, 2017; Bennet, 2019) or cancer (Teston, 2017).
<span style="color:rgb(20,20,18);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The
special issue editors see the publication as an opportunity to create a robust
and cohesive body of scholarship on the rhetoric of chronicity. The special
issue will build on this </span><span style="color:black">existing
RHM scholarship as well as foundational concepts in the field--such as ethics
(Teston, 2017), rhetorical characters (Keranen, 2010), and patient-provider
communication (Segal, 2005)--to focus on how chronic illness can help
rhetoricians of health and medicine </span>think about theory building and
methodologies in RHM, impacting healthcare practices (e.g., through patient
advocacy, clinical practice, personal healthcare management, policy), and gaining
a greater understanding of the variety of texts and artifacts and sites that
RHM scholars investigate. <span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">The
special issue editors are interested in work that examines a variety of chronic
illnesses, including but not limited to </span>mental health, HIV/AIDS, heart
disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, asthma, auto-immune illnesses, addiction issues,
chronic pain, traumatic brain injury. Questions contributors might address
include the following.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Building Theory</b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span>What makes a health condition chronic? How do
we talk about and “do” chronic illness differently than acute medical
conditions? What ramifications do these differences have for rhetorical
theories of health?</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span>What theoretical openings are available to a
rhetoric of chronic health? </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span>How does living with chronic illness or caring
for chronic illness influence rhetorical theories of risk?</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span>How do narrative theories influence concepts
of chronicity?</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span>How does a rhetoric of chronic illness engage
with/build on/re-invent other rhetorical notions (e.g., rhetorical ecologies,
metis, etc.)? </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span>How can a rhetoric of chronic illness build
upon and inform theories of embodiment?</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(20,20,18);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Examining Identity, Agency, and Power Relations</span></b><b></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span>What can insights gleaned from the rhetorical
practices found in specific illness communities help us expand or challenge our
understanding of distributed rhetorical agency, other specific illnesses, and
chronic illnesses more generally?</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span>How does living with/caring for chronic
illness challenge/build on ideas about expertise and/or rhetorical agency
and/or decision making in health care settings?</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span>How do the emotional situations of invisible
suffering, such as psychic disorders, trauma, autoimmune diseases or cancer,
affect how we re-interpret rhetorical in situations of chronic illness and
care?</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span>What assumptions about patienthood do online
chronic patient communities extend, challenge, or upend? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Impacting Practices</b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span>How do rhetorical practices in chronic illness
settings challenge/expand/change the medical language of compliance, shared
decision making and/or patient-centered care?</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span>How does chronicity affect rhetorical
practices from a patient, care giver, doctor, and/or system perspective? </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">What
are the implications of intersections between holistic health rhetoric and the
rhetoric of chronic illness?</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">How
can RHM scholars impact health literacy practices of chronic illness?</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoCommentText" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Other types of questions might involve the uneven
impacts of chronic illness among different groups and communities, access to
healthcare, self- and group advocacy (e.g., rhetorical care of self),
variations of cultural perceptions for different types of chronic illnesses,
etc.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">These themes are meant to be generative rather than exhaustive.
The editors and guest editors look forward to reading proposals for traditional
academic articles but are also eager to hear your ideas for other RHM
genres—persuasion briefs, dialogues, commentaries, and review essays. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This special issue will be co-edited by Lora Arduser and Jeff
Bennett in consultation with the RHM co-editors. Special issue proposals will
be reviewed and ranked by the journal’s editorial board, and manuscripts will
undergo the same rigorous peer review process as regular submissions.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Submissions (500 to 850 word proposals, not including citations) should
be made to <a href="mailto:rhm.journal.editors@gmail.com" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:11pt">rhm.journal.editors@gmail.com</span></a>.
Questions should be directed to the special issue editors at <a href="mailto:lora.arduser@uc.edu" style="color:blue">lora.arduser@uc.edu</a> or <a href="mailto:jeff.bennett@vanderbilt.edu" style="color:blue">jeff.bennett@vanderbilt.edu</a>. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Schedule</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Proposals due: March 31, 2020</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Decisions sent out to authors: April 14, 2020</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Drafts due: September 7, 2020</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Revisions due: February 2021</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Publication: October 2021</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Arduser, L. (2017). Living chronic:
Agency and expertise in the rhetoric of diabetes. Columbus: The Ohio State
University Press</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Bennett, J. (2009). <i>Banning
queer blood: Rhetoric’s of citizenship, contagion, and resistance</i>. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama
Press. <b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Centers
for Disease Control (CDC). (2014). Chronic diseases in America. <i>CDC</i>. Retried from:
<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/pdf/infographics/chronic-disease-H.pdf">https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/pdf/infographics/chronic-disease-H.pdf</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Emmons, K. K. (2010). <i>Black dogs and blue words: Depression and
gender in the age of self-care</i>. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University
Press.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Graham, S.S. (2015). <i>The politics of pain medicine: A
rhetorical-ontological inquiry</i>. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago
Press.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">The Lancet. (2009) Tackling the
burden of chronic diseases in the USA. <i>The
Lancet</i>, 373(9659):185. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Keranen, L. (2010). <i>Scientific
characters: Rhetoric, politics, and trust in breast cancer research</i>. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama
Press.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">National Health Council (2014).
About chronic diseases. <i>National Health
Council</i>. Retrieved from: <a href="https://www.nationalhealthcouncil.org/sites/default/files/AboutChronicDisease.pdf">https://www.nationalhealthcouncil.org/sites/default/files/AboutChronicDisease.pdf</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Segal, J. Z. (2005). <i>Heath and the rhetoric of medicine</i>.
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 27pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Teston, C. (2017). <i>Bodies in flux: Scientific methods for negotiating
medical uncertainty</i>. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.</span></p></div>