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Author Segal, Judy Z.

Title Health and the rhetoric of medicine [electronic resource] / Judy Z. Segal.

Imprint Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008, c2005.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition Pbk. ed.
Description x, 217 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-209) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Medicine -- Language.
Rhetoric.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0809326779 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780809328666 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0809328666 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780809386260 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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