Health and the rhetoric of medicine
By: Judy Z. Segal.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Medicine -- Language.; Rhetoric.; Persuasive Communication.; Authorship.; Semantics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A kairology of biomedicine; title: Patient audience: the rhetorical construction of the migraineur; title: The epideictic rhetoric of pathography; title: Hypochondria as a rhetorical disorder; title: A rhetoric of death and dying; title: Values, metaphors, and health policy; title: The problem of patient "noncompliance" : paternalism, expertise, and the ethos of the physician; title: The usefulness of a rhetoric of medicine.