In this introduction, we emphasize the urgency of centering bodyminds and communities whose lives experiences have been disregarded, or viewed as disposable, in medical technical communication. With an expansive vision health, set interdisciplinary stage for authors who answer call multiply-marginalized scholars working (and beyond) rhetorics to reimagine health-related research that centers pe...

This article is intended as a first attempt to assemble and, where necessary, to newly devise, a series of terms which can be used to indicate the poetical features1 and rhetorical structures and devices typically present in the words of a charm, and also the proxemic manoeuvres employed in the “performance” of charms.2 In the English-speaking world academic investigations into individual verba...