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

Publication Info.	Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.
	©2005

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Edition	Pbk. ed.
Description	1 online resource (x, 217 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	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.
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Subject	Medicine -- Language.
	Medicine -- Language.
	Rhetoric.
	Rhetoric.
	Authorship.
	Persuasive Communication.
	Semantics.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Segal, Judy. Health and the rhetoric of medicine. Pbk. ed. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008, ©2005 0809326779 9780809326778 (DLC) 2005011674 (OCoLC)59818235
ISBN	9781441619457 (electronic book)
	1441619453 (electronic book)