Health and the rhetoric of medicine

Main Author: Segal, Judy Z.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008, c2005.
Edition:Pbk. ed.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10657729
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505 0 |a 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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