UID:
almahu_9949385967102882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 167 pages)
ISBN:
9780429291074
,
0429291078
,
9781000731521
,
1000731529
,
9781000731262
,
100073126X
,
9781000731392
,
1000731391
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication
Content:
This book explores rhetorical ethos and its ongoing role in patients' credibility and in misdiagnoses stemming from gender, race and class-based biases. Drawing on the concept of ethos as a theoretical framework, it explores health and mental illness across different conditions and across different methodological approaches. Extending work on ethos in clinical encounters and public discourse about biomedicine and presenting new research on the rhetoric of mental health, stigma and mental illness, the book explores how bias in clinical settings can lead to symptoms labelled "in the patient's head" masking treatable medical problems. This notable contribution to the rhetoric of health and medicine will be of interest to all researchers and graduate students of rhetoric and composition studies, rhetoric of health and medicine, disability studies, medical humanities, communication, and psychology.--
Note:
1. Introduction to theorizing vernacular credibility and how patients mobilize ethos -- 2. Vulnerable rhetors and stigma in health and medicine -- 3. Contested diagnoses and ethos -- 4. Phantom limb pain and tacit appeals to ethos -- 5. Recuperative ethos and agile epistemologies in mental health and beyond -- 6. Conclusion: Towards a methodology for studying everyday ethos in clinical settings.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Molloy, Cathryn. Rhetorical ethos in health and medicine. New York : Routledge, 2020 ISBN 9780367260170
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780429291074
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429291074
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