Title

Afterword: Elaborating Health And Medicine'S Publics

Keywords

Embodiment; Infrastructure; Medicine and health; Personal health records (PHRs); Publics

Abstract

This essay argues that medical and health humanists interested in the rhetorical work of publics can extend their research by attending to embodiment and infrastructure. In addition to discussing how such strategies are illustrated in the essays appearing in this special issue, I relate them to the rhetorical study of personal health records (PHRs) as described in consumer-directed arguments. I conclude by posing two questions to health and medical humanists: "How do discursive constructions of publics and more specific instantiations of embodied experiences mutually shape each other?" and "What do the infrastructures of health and medical users look like and involve in their enactment?" © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York.

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publication Title

Journal of Medical Humanities

Volume

35

Issue

2

Number of Pages

229-235

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-014-9279-3

Socpus ID

84899846622 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84899846622

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