Representation Matters: Theorizing Health Communication from the Flesh

Abstract

This essay engages simultaneous stories that bridge the personal and the professional within the context of health communication focusing on how cultural, racialized identity politics reveal the shortfalls of scholarly literature as the overarching and exclusionary pulse of an academic conversation. Drawing upon a publication journey and personal Latinx knowledge about health treatment preferences, I describe the intertwined and inescapable embodied knowledge that enriches and guides scholarly endeavors. I assert several health communication sub-field calls to action.