Health and the rhetoric of medicine [electronic resource] / Judy Z. Segal.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008, c2005.Edition: Pbk. edDescription: x, 217 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 610/.1/4 22
LOC classification:
  • R123 .S38 2008eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-209) and index.

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.

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