1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455657003321

Autore

Segal Judy Z

Titolo

Health and the rhetoric of medicine [[electronic resource] /] / Judy Z. Segal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008, c2005

ISBN

1-299-13245-6

0-8093-8626-7

1-4416-1945-3

Edizione

[Pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

610/.1/4

Soggetti

Medicine - Language

Rhetoric

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-209) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996211384203316

Titolo

Human resource development quarterly / / sponsored by the American Society for Training and Development, [etc.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[San Francisco], : [Jossey-Bass], : Wiley Periodicals, Inc., ©1990-

ISSN

1532-1096

Disciplina

658

Soggetti

Personnel management - Research - Methodology

Personnel management

Personnel management - United States

Human Resources

Periodicals.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Title from table of contents screen (Wiley InterScience; viewed: 9/14/2006).

Published: [San Francisco : Jossey-Bass] : Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 1990- ; published: [San Francisco] : Wiley Periodicals, Inc., <2005->