<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Issue 6.1 of the <i>Rhetoric of Health and Medicine</i>
journal is here!</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In the editors’ introduction titled “‘This Time is Crisis
Time’: A Syndemic Approach,” Cathryn Molloy and Kim Hensley Owens write, “Understanding
COVID-19 (and other pandemics affected by overlapping endemic conditions) as ‘syndemics’
allows us to disrupt and move beyond a health and wellness binary, to
experience ‘crisis time’ as time for action across multiple spheres.” The articles
provided in this issue speak to that action and contribute to conversations on
health, justice, pedagogy, and policy in important ways.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This issue contains research articles and book reviews that
address topics such as the rhetoric of depression, rhetorical empathy in
healthcare education, individualism and healthcare, racial hegemony and the opioid
epidemic, medical uncertainty, medical injustice, and more from scholars Judy
Z. Segal, Lillian Campbell and Elisabeth L. Miller, Charee M. Thompson,
Christopher M. Duerringer, Lynsey K. Romo, and Shana Makos, Raymond Rosas, Lisa
DeTora, and Allison Rowland.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The full issue can be found here: <a href="https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/issue/view/340" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/issue/view/340</a>
</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Please share widely!</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Best,</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Brittany</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">Brittany Smart</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">, M.A., she/her</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">Assistant Editor, <i>Rhetoric of Health
and Medicine</i> Journal</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">Ph.D. Candidate, Rhetoric &
Composition</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">University of Louisville</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif"><a href="mailto:brittany.smart@louisville.edu" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">brittany.smart@louisville.edu</a> </span></p>

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