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Health and the rhetoric of medicine / Judy Z. Segal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Segal, Judy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Language.
- Rhetoric.
- Authorship.
- Persuasive Communication.
- Semantics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Authorship.
- Persuasive Communication.
- Semantics.
- Physical Description:
- x, 217 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2005]
- Contents:
- A kairology of biomedicine
- Patient audience: the rhetorical construction of the migraineur
- The epideictic rhetoric of pathography
- Hypochondria as a rhetorical disorder
- A rhetoric of death and dying
- Values, metaphors, and health policy
- The problem of patient "noncompliance" : paternalism, expertise, and the ethos of the physician
- Conclusion: The usefulness of a rhetoric of medicine.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-209) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0809326779
- OCLC:
- 59818235
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