The Humanities Research Colloquium will present a book talk with Dr. Lillian Campbell, associate professor of English in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, on Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 4 p.m. in Marquette Hall 105 and via Teams.
In “Patient Sense: Rhetorical Body Work in the Age of Technology,” Campbell examines how new healthcare providers leverage their intuitive and embodied patient knowledge in the face of increasingly technology-mediated healthcare. This talk will introduce the book’s theory of rhetorical body work — paid physical, emotional or discursive labor performed at the material or technological interface of worker–client bodies — and demonstrate its role in delivering individualized patient care alongside emerging health technologies. The talk will identify empathy, expertise and intuition as three areas in which patient sense cannot be replaced by technicians or algorithms.
Campbell will conclude by previewing new research that addresses the ongoing role of new technologies in both first-year writing and interprofessional health education.
Campbell teaches and researches in the areas of rhetoric of health and medicine, professional and technical writing and rhetorical theory. Her research is currently supported by a Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute Collaborative Curricula Grant and a Way Klingler Fellowship.
For more information and to obtain the Teams link, email Dr. Melissa Ganz.
