Rhetoric of healthcare
Subtitle: essays toward a new disciplinary inquiry
By: edited by Barbara Heifferon, Stuart C. Brown.
Contributors: Heifferon, Barbara.; Brown, Stuart C. 1955-
Series: Health communication; Health communication (Cresskill, N.J.)
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cresskill, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781572737907; 9781572737914
Subjects: Communication in medicine; Rhetoric; Physician and patient; Delivery of Health Care; Communication; Professional-Patient Relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The rhetoric of hope in the genre of prognosis / Ellen Barton & Richard Marback; title: "Female sexual dysfunction" and a rhetoric of values / Judy Z. Segal; title: Pandemics or pandemonium : preparing for avian flu / Barbara A. Heifferon; title: Diabetes management, the complexities of embodiment, and rhetorical analysis / David S. Martins; title: Rhetorical assumptions, rhetorical risks : communication models in genetic counseling / Michelle R. Mebust & Steven B. Katz; title: The genre of the clinical study report in drug development / Philip Bernick, Stephen A. Bernhardt & Gregory Cuppan; title: As if good writing mattered : a rhetoric of pragmatism in health care business letters / Susan L. Popham; title: The rhetoric of mental health care / J. Fred Reynolds; title: "All on the list" : uptake in talk about depression / Kimberly Emmons; title: Seeing and re-viewing the human body : reflections on the rhetoric of medical videography / John Dinolfo; title: From the frontiers of IMRAD : non-traditional medical research in two cancer journals / Michael J. Zerbe; title: To design a doctor(ate) : negotiating professional identities in a new clinical-doctoral program / Jane Detweiler; title: Concept analysis : using an academic nursing genre for writing instruction in nursing / Jennie Ariail & Thomas G. Smith.