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 a strong and consistent case for the materiality of persuasion and adds substantially to the conceptualization of evidence. The analyses are strong and ingenious, and the evidential grounding for the arguments is powerful. Teston’s book is closely reasoned, interestingly focused, and solidly grounded in evidence. The book has great potential for transferability to medical ethics, medical humanities, and health communication, to name a few other disciplines of interest.
Please join us for the presentation of the award at the ARSTM’s business meeting during the National Communication Association conference on Saturday, November 16 at 8 a.m. in the Baltimore Convention Center, 346 (on the 300 Level) in Baltimore, Maryland.
During the meeting, we will also acknowledge the two finalists who advanced to the final round of judging: From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History by Amy Koerber; and Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism: Technological and Rhetorical Paradox by Ian E. J. Hill.