Health and the rhetoric of medicine
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2008, c2005.
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| Edición: | Pbk. ed. |
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Table of 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.