Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine
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Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine

Patient Credibility, Stigma, and Misdiagnosis

  1. 168 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine

Patient Credibility, Stigma, and Misdiagnosis

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9780367260170
eBook ISBN
9781000731521
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Communication Studies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. 1 Introduction to Theorizing Vernacular Credibility and How Patients Mobilize Ethos
  11. 2 Vulnerable Rhetors and Stigma in Health and Medicine
  12. 3 Contested Diagnoses and Ethos: How Patients Push Back When Care Providers Misdiagnose Somatic Symptoms
  13. 4 Phantom Limb Pain and Tacit Appeals to Ethos: When Patients’ Self-Knowledge Exceeds Existing Clinical Knowledge and Predicts Future Clinical Findings
  14. 5 Recuperative Ethos and Agile Epistemologies in Mental Health and Beyond: Toward a Vernacular Engagement in Mental Health Ontologies
  15. 6 Conclusion: Toward a Methodology for Studying Everyday Ethos in Clinical Settings
  16. Index