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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues, </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The team at <i style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">RHM Journal</i> is excited to share a new
issue with you!</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In their introduction titled “Celebrating Unexpected
Research Questions,” co-editors Kim Hensley Owens and Cathryn Molloy consider
the importance of promoting “a culture curiosity, support, and advice as a
response to unexpected research questions” in RHM and underscore the value of
questions that are “shaped and nurtured as they evolve into answers and
valuable contributions to our field.”</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Within this issue, you will find research articles on
pandemic rhetoric and policy, cultural appropriation and neohealthism, and
illness chronicity and mental health, a dialogue on public health celebrities
during COVID-19, a sneak peek into the new Graphic RHM column, book reviews,
and more from authors Lisa Keränen, Branden Ingersoll, Aishwarya
Krishnamoorthy, and Meghan Cosgrove; Stacey Overholt and Amanda M. Friz; Ellen
Defossez; Colleen Derkatch, Kristin Kondrlik, Hua Wang, and Beck Wise; KC
Councilor; S. Scott Graham; and Brittany Smart.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The full issue can be found at <a href="https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/issue/view/363" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/issue/view/363</a>.
Open-access book reviews can be found at <a href="https://medicalrhetoric.com/vol-6-issue-4/" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">https://medicalrhetoric.com/vol-6-issue-4/</a>.
Don’t forget to check our new Graphic RHM column <a href="https://medicalrhetoric.com/graphicRHM/home/archive/column-1/" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">here</a>.<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">  </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Happy reading!</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Best,</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Brittany</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Brittany Smart</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">, Ph.D., she/her</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Assistant Editor, </span><a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.upress.ufl.edu%2Frhm&data=05%7C01%7Cbrittany.smart%40louisville.edu%7C8370b8a628f4456350c208db6b9b7b3b%7Cdd246e4a54344e158ae391ad9797b209%7C0%7C0%7C638222087751193990%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=C5nfi46w5HMe8dAfn8A%2BR%2Bat7WjvE5hbSRJOijr6UB8%3D&reserved=0" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(5,99,193)">Rhetoric of Health
and Medicine</span></i></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Indiana University School of
Medicine</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:brsmart@iu.edu" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">brsmart@iu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"></span></p>





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