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The ARSTM Book Award Committee is pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 ARSTM Book Award: Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty by Christa Teston. Bodies in Flux explores networks of human and non-human agents that work together to create medical evidence and negotiate medical uncertainty in cancer care. Grounded in the explanatory power of both classical and contemporary rhetorical theory, the book makes… Read More »Christa Teston wins ARSTM Book Award

From a field of excellent submissions, the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine’s Article of the Year award committee has selected Jennifer Edwell, Sarah Singer, and Jordynn Jack’s article, “Healing arts: Rhetorical techne as medical (humanities) intervention” as the winner of the 2019 award. Drawing from a study that engaged individuals with diabetes in a writing workshop, this article explores the complex… Read More »Edwell, Singer, and Jack win ARSTM Article of the Year

The deadline to submit for the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) pre-conference at RSA is extended to September 15th, 2019. Please consider submitting! The theme of ARSTM@RSA 2020, “Boundary Work,” invites rhetoricians of science, technology, and medicine to explore and reflect on practices of demarcation, coordination, and calibration. We invite individual papers and panel discussions that advance our understanding of… Read More »Deadline Extended for RSA Pre-Conference on Boundary Work

ARSTM officer elections are now open. Members of ARSTM are eligible to vote in this election (if you need to renew your membership, please do so here: https://staging.arstmonline.org/membership/). Please vote online before July 17th, 2019. The slate of candidates and their statements appear after the link: https://uwaterloo.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eEU8j5tx9AskNzT — If you have any questions, please contact ARSTM President Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher at 

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The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine leadership and Board of Directors wishes to affirm its commitment to diverse scholarship and a diverse membership. By affirming our commitment to diversity and scholarship, we repudiate arguments that would reduce diversity to a quota or would resort to tokenism as a sufficient substitute for disciplinary transformation. Instead, we wish to prioritize and legitimate the… Read More »Statement on the National Communication Association Distinguished Scholars Controversy

Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine 2020 Rhetoric Society of America Pre-Conference Portland, OR – 21 May 2020 Call for Papers Boundary Work The theme of ARSTM@RSA 2020, “Boundary Work,” invites rhetoricians of science, technology, and medicine to explore and reflect on practices of demarcation, coordination, and calibration. Although boundary work has commonly been leveraged to describe the rhetorical practices of demarcation… Read More »CFP for RSA 2020 Pre-Conference on Boundary Work

The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) members are invited to nominate candidates for the following offices. Self-nominations are encouraged, and incumbents are encouraged to run again, if interested. As a small organization, ARSTM relies on an active, enthusiastic, and collegial officer group. Service loads are reasonable with most positions normally requiring under 40 hours per year; the President normally has… Read More »Call for Nominations for ARSTM Officers

Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine 2019 National Communication Association Pre-Conference Baltimore, MD – 13 November 2019 Call for Papers Rhetorics of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Translation Translation is a central component of conducting socially meaningful research in the rhetoric of science, technology, health, and medicine. RSTM scholars are perpetually charged with translating scientific knowledge into a rhetorical framework and, in… Read More »NCA 2019 Pre-Conference Deadline Extended to 5/15/19

Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine 2019 National Communication Association Pre-Conference Baltimore, MD – 13 November 2019 Call for Papers Rhetorics of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Translation Translation is a central component of conducting socially meaningful research in the rhetoric of science, technology, health, and medicine. RSTM scholars are perpetually charged with translating scientific knowledge into a rhetorical framework and, in… Read More »CFP for NCA 2019 Pre-Conference on Translation

Call for Papers Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine NCA 2019: Communication for Survival Submit online through Convention Central: https://www.natcom.org/nca-105th-annual-convention-communication-survival The purpose of the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) is to promote research, teaching, and civic engagement that explores the communicative and persuasive dimensions of scientific, technical, and biomedical texts, genres, practices, materials, and settings. Members are concerned… Read More »CFP for NCA 2019