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Health and the rhetoric of medicine
- Title
- Health and the rhetoric of medicine / Judy Z. Segal.
- Author
- Segal, Judy.
- Publication
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2005.
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Details
- Description
- x, 217 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-2392
- ISBN
- 0809326779 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005011674
- OCLC
- 59818235
- Author
- Segal, Judy.
- Title
- Health and the rhetoric of medicine / Judy Z. Segal.
- Imprint
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-209) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-2392