Insufficient Fear of the “Super-flu”?:  The World Health Organization’s Global Decision-Making for Health

Condit, Celeste M.

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“…By setting themselves up as uniquely empowered experts who should control and direct the irrational public, health care organizations cut themselves off from the reservoirs of those eyes, ears, and hands, as well as from additional ideas and imagination. I have previously suggested ways in which WHO could use the internet to incorporate multidisciplinary and multinational insights to augment health care policy development (Condit, 2014). Other existing models (WHO, 2014h) could be expanded and additional possibilities developed to augment epidemic control once health care experts adopt a more self-aware stance about their self-depictions.…”

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The spread of ebola: How the world health organization’s rhetoric contributed to virus transmission

Condit

2015

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The tragedy of the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa was exacerbated by World Health Organization (WHO) rhetoric that depicted medical personnel as saviors of an irrational and emotional public. That common rhetoric rests on a faulty image of scientific knowledge as a substance that binds its affiliates into a community with special powers and immunities. This analysis shows how such rhetoric blinded the international community to attending to the potential role of health care sites and health care workers as vectors of disease transmission. This case illustrates why analysis of rhetoric is part of a full scientific approach to gaining, sharing, and deploying knowledge.

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The spread of ebola: How the world health organization’s rhetoric contributed to virus transmission

Condit

2015

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Matters of Dwelling: Releasing the Genetically Engineered Aedes Aegypti Mosquito in Key West

Herndl

Zarlengo

2017

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Rethinking the Rhetorical Epistemics of Gaslighting

Graves

Spencer

2021

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Gaslighting is defined as a dysfunctional communication dynamic in which one interlocutor attempts to destabilize another’s sense of reality. In this article, we advance a model of gaslighting based in an epistemic rhetoric perspective. Our model directs attention to the rhetorics used to justify competing knowledge claims, as opposed to philosophical models that tend to rely on objective truth-value. We probe the discursive manifestations of gaslighting in logocentric, ethotic, or pathemic terms. We then apply our model to explain sexist and racist gaslighting that derives power from normatively instantiated discourses of rape culture and White supremacy. Specifically, our analysis identifies the appeal structures used to legitimate such gaslighting in response to disclosures of sexual violence and testimony about racial injustice.

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Insufficient Fear of the “Super-flu”?: The World Health Organization’s Global Decision-Making for Health

Cited by 4 publications

References 44 publications

The spread of ebola: How the world health organization’s rhetoric contributed to virus transmission

The spread of ebola: How the world health organization’s rhetoric contributed to virus transmission

Matters of Dwelling: Releasing the Genetically Engineered Aedes Aegypti Mosquito in Key West

Rethinking the Rhetorical Epistemics of Gaslighting

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