Research Catalog

Title

Health and the rhetoric of medicine / Judy Z. Segal.

Author

Segal, Judy.

Publication

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2005.

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Description

xi, 217 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The first comprehensive study of contemporary health issues grounded in rhetorical principles, Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine bridges critical analysis for scholarly, professional, and lay audiences. Segal highlights the persuasive element in diagnosis, health policy, illness experience, and illness narratives. She also addresses questions of direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs, the role of health information in creating the "worried well," and problems of trust and expertise in physician/patient relationships. A useful resource for critical common sense in everyday life, the text provides an effective examination of a society increasingly influenced by the rhetoric of health and medicine."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• Medicine > Language
• Rhetoric
• Persuasive Communication
• Authorship
• Semantics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical notes and bibliography (p. 161-209) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 -- The usefulness of a rhetoric of medicine.

ISBN

0809326779 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005011674

OCLC

59818235

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library