title: Public engagements with health and medicine.
abstract: This introduction to the special issue on "Medicine, Health, and Publics" argues that a rhetorical understanding of publics offers conceptual, methodological, and practical benefits to health and medical humanities scholars.
authors.affiliation: University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, USA, lisa.keranen@ucdenver.edu.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Keränen
mesh_terms: D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D006266:Health Education; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006809:Humanities; D006801:Humans; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D011634:Public Health; D014481:United States