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Assessing rhetorical principles of contemporary health issues Hypochondriacs are vulnerable to media hype, anorexics are susceptible to public scrutiny, and migraine sufferers are tainted with the history of the "migraine personality," maintains rhetorical theorist Judy Z. Segal. All are i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Segal, Judy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008, 2005.
Edición:Pbk. ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Rhetoric.
Medicine > Language.
MEDICAL.
semantics.
authorship.
Semantique.
Communication persuasive.
Art d'ecrire.
Rhetorique.
Medecine > Langage.
Semantics
Persuasive Communication
Authorship
Medicine > Slang.
Semantics.
Persuasion (Psychology)
Authorship.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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