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Pbk. ed.

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008, c2005

1 online resource (x, 217 p.)

ISBN 9780809386260 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0809326779 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 0809328666 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780809328666 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)856870252