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ABSTRACT
Health Communication launched the “Defining Moments” feature of the journal in 2009, including essays that showcase the social and material power of storytelling. Over the past 10 years, essays have enlarged academic conventions and offered diverse entry points for refiguring the experience of living well in the midst of inescapable illness, trauma, and disability. Health Communication builds on this legacy by introducing a podcast by the same name. In this essay, I position podcasting as embodied and engaged scholarship that connects health communication scholars, physicians and other care providers, patients and families, and general publics interested in illness and healthcare, vulnerability and well-being.
Acknowledgments
The author thanks Drs. Teri Thompson, Karen Deardorff, Laura Ellingson, Brittany Peterson, and Bill Rawlins for their thoughtful considerations of this podcast series and article. She remains grateful to Barbara Geralds for her endowment of the Barbara Geralds Institute for Storytelling and Social Impact at Ohio University. The Storytelling Institute continues to support pedagogical and scholarly efforts guided by narrative sensibilities.
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Lynn M. Harter
Lynn M. Harter, (Ph.D., University of Nebraska) is a Professor and Co-Director of the Barbara Geralds Institute for Storytelling and Social Impact at Ohio University