Title The rhetoric of breast cancer : patient-to-patient discourse in an online community / Carie S. Tucker King.

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Description	1 online resource (vii, 181 pages).
	text file
Series	Lexington studies in health communication
	Lexington studies in health communication.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Online Communities and Patient Discourse -- 2 The Rhetoric of Breast Cancer -- 3 Patients, Medical Care, and Rhetoric -- 4 Concerns Related to Privacy, Online Disclosure, and Ethics -- 5 Big Data and the Rhetorics of Health and Medicine -- References -- Index
Summary	This book analyzes how women converse about breast cancer on the Internet. The author provides a discussion of the complex structures of online communities, particularly those focused on medical diagnoses.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Communication in medicine.
	Communication in medicine.
	Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- Social networks.
	Breast -- Cancer -- Patients.
	Social networks.
	Social media in medicine.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
	Social media in medicine.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Subject	Breast.
Other Form:	Print version: King, Carie S. Tucker. Rhetoric of breast cancer. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017] 9781498552448 (DLC) 2017037428
ISBN	9781498552455 (electronic book)
	1498552455 (electronic book)
	9781498552448 (hardcover alkaline paper)