Gender and the language of illness
By: Jonathan Charteris-Black, Clive Seale
Contributors: Seale, Clive
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230222359
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender and the language of illness; title: Methods for investigating gender and language; title: Men's traditional discourse of illness: distancing and avoidance; title: A feminine discourse of illness: transformation and modality; title: Emotional disclosure: socio-economic classification, age and gender; title: Experience of support: gender, social class and age; title: Illness type and gender; title: Conclusion.