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Author Segal, Judy.

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

Imprint Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008, ℗♭2005.

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Edition Pbk. ed.
Descript 1 online resource (x, 217 pages)
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-209) and index.
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 -- Conclusion: The usefulness of a rhetoric of medicine.
Summary Assessing rhetorical principles of contemporary health issues Hypochondriacs are vulnerable to media hype, anorexics are susceptible to public scrutiny, and migraine sufferers are tainted with the history of the "migraine personality," maintains rhetorical theorist Judy Z. Segal. All are influenced by the power of persuasion. Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine explores persistent health conditions that resist conventional medical solutions. Using a range of rhetorical principles, Segal analyzes how patients and their illnesses.
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Subject Medicine -- Language.
Rhetoric.
Authorship.
Persuasion (Psychology)
Semantics.
Medicine -- Slang.
Authorship
Persuasive Communication
Semantics
authorship.
semantics.
MEDICAL.
Semantics. (OCoLC)fst01112079
Persuasion (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst01058890
Medicine -- Slang. (OCoLC)fst01015102
Authorship. (OCoLC)fst00822442
Medicine -- Language. (OCoLC)fst01014991
Rhetoric. (OCoLC)fst01096948
ISBN 9781441619457 (electronic bk.)
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