Health and the rhetoric of medicine
By: Judy Z. Segal
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780809328666
Subjects: Medicine; Rhetoric; Language
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: The what, why, and how of a rhetoric of medicine --; 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 -- -- Conclusion:; title: The usefulness of a rhetoric of medicine.