Patients Making Meaning: Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health

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Bryna Siegel Finer Cathryn Molloy

Patients Making Meaning

Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health

Bryna Siegel Finer, Cathryn Molloy, Jamie White-Farnham

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English

Routledge
30 January 2025

Communication studies; Sociology; Personal & public health; Medical sociology

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

This book explores how women make meaning at various health flashpoints in their lives, overcoming fear, anxiety, and anger to draw upon self-advocacy, research, and crucial decision-making.

Combining focus group research, content analysis, autoethnography, and textual inquiry, the book argues that the making and remaking of what we call “patient epistemologies” is a continual process wherein a health flashpoint—sometimes a new diagnosis, sometimes a reoccurrence or worsening of an existing condition or the progression of a natural process—can cause an individual to be thrust into a discourse community that was not of their own choosing.

This study will interest students and scholars of health communication, rhetoric of health and medicine, women’s studies, public health, healthcare policy, philosophy of medicine, medical sociology, and medical humanities.

By: Bryna Siegel Finer, Cathryn Molloy, Jamie White-Farnham
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 230g
ISBN: 9781032503967
ISBN 10: 1032503963
Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 30 January 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1: Starting from Friendship and Rhetoric: An Introduction to Patient Epistemology Chapter 2: Toward a Theory of Patient Epistemologies: How Health Flashpoints Engender Cyclical Rhetorical and Identity Work Chapter 3: Searching for Meaning and Support: What Women with Breast Cancer Say Chapter 4: Entering the Conversation: Rhetorical Encounters with a Stagnated Menopause Discourse Chapter 5: Making Sense of Sobriety as a Woman: Expanding Options for Patient Epistemologies Chapter 6: A Rhetorical Autoethnographic Sketch of Patient Epistemology Chapter 7: Afterword: Looking to the Future of Patient Epistemology

Bryna Siegel Finer is Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA, where she serves as the Director of Undergraduate Writing Programs. She is the co-editor of Writing Program Architecture and Women’s Health Advocacy. Cathryn Molloy is Professor of Writing Studies in the English department at the University of Delaware, USA. She is the author of Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine: Patient Credibility, Stigma, and Misdiagnosis and is co-editor of the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine journal. Jamie White-Farnham is Professor in the Writing Program at University of Wisconsin-Superior, USA, where she serves as Director of Teaching & Learning. She is the co-editor of Writing Program Architecture and Women’s Health Advocacy.