Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine: Patient Credibility, Stigma, and Misdiagnosis

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Cathryn Molloy

Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine

Patient Credibility, Stigma, and Misdiagnosis

Cathryn Molloy

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Routledge
17 October 2019

Communication studies; Media studies; Personal & public health

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

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.

By: Cathryn Molloy
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 385g
ISBN: 9780367260170
ISBN 10: 0367260174
Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 17 October 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cathryn Molloy is Associate Professor in James Madison University’s School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication where she also serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies. Her work has appeared in College English, Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Qualitative Inquiry, and Technical Communication Quarterly.