Teaching Health Justice: Centering Reproduction

This essay provides an overview of my experiences teaching Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) courses with an explicit health justice focus. I ground a discussion of pedagogical possibility by reflecting on my emerging course design, which centers reproductive justice—one example of a justice-ori...

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Published inRhetoric of health & medicine Vol. 4; no. 4; pp. 475 - 496
Main Author Adams, Heather Brook
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Gainesville University Press of Florida 22.09.2021
Subjects
Activism
Activists
Health education
Human rights
Learning
Medical personnel
Pregnancy
Reproductive health
Reproductive rights
Ross, Loretta J
Teaching
Training
United States > US
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Summary:This essay provides an overview of my experiences teaching Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) courses with an explicit health justice focus. I ground a discussion of pedagogical possibility by reflecting on my emerging course design, which centers reproductive justice—one example of a justice-oriented framework—as a site of learning and inquiry. In describing my course development and delivery, I suggest that a health justice approach to RHM instruction can be timely, contextually relevant, and challenging. Throughout the essay, I offer specific examples for the purposes of replication or adaptation for differently justice-oriented RHM teaching applications.
ISSN:2573-5055
2573-5063
DOI:10.5744/rhm.4004