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Colleen Derkatch is a Professor in the Department of English at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research and teaching primarily focus on rhetorical theory and criticism, particularly regarding the rhetoric of science, health, and medicine, as well as writing studies, genre theory, health humanities, and science technology studies. Derkatch's research seeks to understand the "in-between" spaces of health discourse, including the intersections of medical research practice and non-dominant models of healthcare, and the engagement between doctors, patients, and public understandings of evidence. She is the author of several influential books, including "Wellness Sells: Natural Health vs. Pharmaceutical Culture" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022) and "Bounding Biomedicine: Evidence, Rhetoric, and New Science in Alternative Medicine" (University of Chicago Press, 2016). Her published articles appear in journals such as Canadian Food Studies, Health: Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Study of Health, Illness & Medicine, Rhetoric in Health & Medicine, and Technical Communication Quarterly. Derkatch also co-edited a new book series on Health Humanities for Johns Hopkins University Press. She has received multiple awards for her research and teaching, and her research has been supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
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