Presentations

at the

Rhetorics of Healing Conference

 

(Listed in Alphabetical Order by Author)

Hector Avalos Rethinking the Role of Health Care in the Early History of Christianity
Megan Biesele Medical Rhetoric in the U.S. and Africa: The Oncologist as Charon
Greg Bloomquist First Century Models of Bodily Healing and their Socio-rhetorical Transformation in Some NT Traditions
M. Neil Browne Market Rhetoric as an Obstacle to Healing
Thatcher Carter Tales of Breast Cancer in the 20th Century
Jeffrey J. Folks Remembrance and Healing in Poe's Narratives of Childhood Grief
Jan C. Heller To Heal as Jesus Healed: Implications of John Dominic Crossan's Research for the Self-Understanding of Catholic Health Care Sponsors
J. David Hester The Rhetoric of the Medical Management of Intersexed Children
Lenore Langsdorf Healing Nothingness: Rhetorical Analysis of Christian Scientists' Understanding Illness as Belief
Ed Madden "Can You Feel It, Joe?" Immersion, Empathy and Touch in AIDS Literature
Etta Madden Testimony as Therapy: The Failings of Contemporary Deconversion Narratives
Steven Mailloux Healing Rhetoric: Racial Identities and New Testament Receptions in Nineteenth-Century America
Gary E. Myers The Story Telling Dimension of the Physician-Patient Relationship
Katherine Schneider Healing the Blind and the Sighted: New Testament Images and 21st Century Implications
Sharon Gray Siano The Final Journey: Dialogues, Dances and Dilemmas
H. Peter Steeves "Start a Line and Get me a Consent Waiver, STAT!" Autonomy, Community Consultation, and Informed Consent in Emergency Research
C. Jan Swearingen "Physician, Heal Thyself": Diotima Teaches Socrates a Lesson in Love
Wilhelm Wuellner Obstacles and Promises for Reconsidering a Rhetorics of Healing

 

Respondents include: Susan Jarrat and Michael Leff.