Guides: Critical Writing: WRIT 050-303: Overview

Seminar Reading

Rhetoric in the Flesh by T. Kenny Fountain Rhetoric in the Flesh is the first book-length ethnographic study of the gross anatomy lab to explain how rhetorical discourses, multimodal displays, and embodied practices facilitate learning and technical expertise and how they shape participants' perceptions of the human body. By investigating the role that discourses, displays, and human bodies play in the training and socialization of medical students, T. Kenny Fountain contributes to our theoretical and practical understanding of the social factors that make rhetoric possible and material in technical domains. Thus, the book also explains how these displays, discourses, and practices lead to the trained perspective necessary for expertise. This trained vision is constructed over time through what Fountain terms embodied rhetorical action, an intertwining of body-object-environment that undergirds all scientific, medical, and technical work. This book will be valuable for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in technical and professional communication (technical communication theory and practice, visual or multimodal communication, medical technical communication) and rhetorical studies, including visual rhetoric, rhetoric of science, medical rhetoric, material rhetoric and embodiment, and ethnographic approaches to rhetoric.
ISBN: 9781315815459
Publication Date: 2014-07-11

Scholarly Databases

These databases will help you find scholarly articles about your topic

EBSCO MegaFILE
Information and articles from a variety of scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers, covering all disciplines and topics.
PubMed
Searches many of the most significant and influential research journals in the medicine and the health sciences.
APA PsycInfo
Comprehensive access to professional and scholarly journals in psychology and related fields.

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Other Resources

OpenAnatomy
Democratizing anatomical knowledge.
Acland's Anatomy
In-depth guided dissection videos. A traditional/classical approach to anatomy education.
Visible Body
Virtual and app-based anatomy education.
UCSD Medical School Donor Memorial Ceremony [Video]
Many School of Medicine require first year medical students to participate in memorial ceremonies attended by the family members of cadaver donors.
Dissections: Photographs from a Rite of Passage
Images that reflect on the role of dissection as a rite of passage and a tool for personal transformation and professional role formation. Dark humor abounds.
When Legs and Arms Won
Account of one of the first anatomical dissection classes for women, at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Body Donors: First Patient or First Teacher
Interesting article comparing cultural differences in the appreciation of body donors by medical students in Thailand and in America.
Anatomical Sciences Education [Journal]
Official journal of the American Association for Anatomy (anatomy.org).

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Research Skills Trainer
Short online tutorial summarizing most of the topics covered in this guide and presented in the librarian's in-class visit.

How to Read a Citation

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Using Citations to Find Articles

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Using Citations to Find Books

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