Health and the rhetoric of medicine [electronic resource] /
Judy Z. Segal.
- Pbk. ed.
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008, c2005.
- x, 217 p.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.