Health and the rhetoric of medicine
Segal, Judy Z.
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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780809386260 (electronic bk.)
Medicine--Language.
Rhetoric.
Electronic books.
R123 / .S38 2008
610/.1/4
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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780809386260 (electronic bk.)
Medicine--Language.
Rhetoric.
Electronic books.
R123 / .S38 2008
610/.1/4