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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Segal, Judy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008, ©2005.
Edition:Pbk. ed.
Subjects:
Medicine > Language.
Rhetoric.
Authorship.
Persuasion (Psychology)
Semantics.
Medicine > Slang.
Authorship
Persuasive Communication
Semantics
Médecine > Langage.
Rhétorique.
Art d'écrire.
Communication persuasive.
Sémantique.
authorship.
semantics.
rhetoric (discipline)
MEDICAL.
Medicine > Slang
Medicine > Language
Rhetoric
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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