Covid and . . . How To Do Rhetoric in a Pandemic is among the first edited collections to consider how rhetoric shapes Covid’s disease trajectory. Arguing that the circulation of any virus must be understood in tandem with the public communication accompanying it, this collection converses with interdisciplinary stakeholders also committed to the project of social wellness during pandemic times. With inventive ways of thinking about structural inequities in health, these essays showcase the forces that pandemic rhetoric exerts across health conditions, politics, and histories of social injustice.
ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: An Agenda for Pandemic Rhetoric | Allison L. Rowland, Emily Winderman, and Jennifer MalkowskiPart 1. Pre-existing and ChronicCovid and Racialized Myths: Pre-existing Conditions and the Invisible Traces of White Supremacy | Raquel M. RobvaisCovid and Environmental Atmospheres: Pulmonary Publics and Our Shared Air | Sara DiCaglioCovid and Science Denialism: The Rhetorical Foundations of US Anti- Masking Discourse | Kurt ZemlickaCovid and Vaccine Hesitancy: Tracing the Tuskegee-Covid Straw Man Fallacy as a History Presently Unfolding | Veronica Joyner and Heidi Y. LawrencePart 2. Essential and DisposableCovid and Essential Workers: Medical Crises and the Rhetorical Strategies of Disposability | Marina LevinaCovid and Being a Doctor: Physicians’ Published Narratives as Crisis Archive | Molly Margaret Kessler, Michael Aylward, and Bernard TrappeyCovid and Fatphobia: How Rhetorics of Disposability Render Fat Bodies Unworthy of Care and Life | Hailey Nicole OtisCovid and Intersex: In/Essential Medical Management, Celeste E. OrrPart 3. Remedy and ResistanceCovid and Shared Black Health: Rethinking Nonviolence in the Dual Pandemics | DiArron M.Covid and Masking: Race, Dress, and Addressivity | Angela Nurse and Diane KeelingCovid and Disability: Tactical Responses to Normative Vaccine Communication in Appalachia | Julie Gerdes, Priyanka Ganguly, and Luana ShaferCovid and Doubt: An Emergent Structure of Feeling | Jeffrey A. BennettContributors
