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

By: Segal, Judy ZContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008, c2005Edition: Pbk. edDescription: x, 217 pISBN: 9780809386260 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Medicine -- Language | RhetoricGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 610/.1/4 LOC classification: R123 | .S38 2008Online resources: Click to View
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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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