This class will focus on formulating arguments, presenting data and conveying medical information and is designed to help clinicians, clinical investigators, researchers and allied health professionals achieve their personal writing and career objectives. We will study the intersectionality of race, class, and gender and explore how it affects the rhetoric of health and medicine. This class also investigates persuasion in contemporary medicine/heath care from clinical settings through mass media. Case studies explore contagion, health policy, the body, death, and biopower. The course requires extensive discussion of readings and an original research project.