Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine

Name: Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine
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ISBN: 9780809328666

ISBN-10: 0809328666

ISBN-13: 9780809328666

Edition: 2005

Authors: Judy Z. Segal

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Persuasion is a key to understanding some of the most difficult-to-solve problems in health and health care-problems like illness anxiety, "contested illnesses," patient noncompliance, and end-of-life decision making. In each case, maintains rhetorical theorist Judy Z. Segal, a revealing question to ask is, "Who is persuading whom of what-and what are the means of persuasion?"

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 6/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The What, Why, and How of a Rhetoric of Medicine



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


Notes


Works Cited


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