Health and the rhetoric of medicine

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Autore principale: Segal, Judy Z.
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008, c2005.
Edizione:Pbk. ed.
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Sommario:
  • 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.