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The awards committee for the Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology's (ARST) inaugural Article of the Year Award is pleased to announce that this year’s winner is S. Scott Graham's "Dis-ease or Disease? Ontological Rarefaction in the Medical-Industrial Complex," which appeared in the April 2011 issue of Journal of the Medical Humanities. Dr. Graham is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The ARST Article of the Year award recognizes an essay published in the previous calendar year that stands out for its extension of theoretical and practical knowledge of the rhetoric of science and technology (ROST), that can foster cross-disciplinary interest in ROST studies, and that has the potential to teach future generations of scholars about rhetorical aspects of science and technology.

ARST thanks award committee chair John Lynch and members David Berube and Lynda Walsh for their service in selecting this year's article.

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