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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Medical Rhetoric"”.
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Struggling against leprosy: physicians, medicine, and society in Colombia, 1880-1940
… of leprosy sufferers, and unfolded a nationalist rhetoric. Colombian isolation policies had their roots in Spanish medieval traditions and in international examples. Colombian physicians were aware of European scientific developments. In the 1870s, the Norwegian physician Gerhard A. Hansen …
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Rhetoric, Disability, and Prenatal Testing: Down Syndrome as an Object of Discourse
This project considers how disability studies and rhetorical studies—specifically the area of medical rhetoric—might usefully inform one another. In particular, this project examines prenatal testing for Down syndrome as a rhetorical situation that initiates and circulates many different discourses …
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Sociocultural studies of biomedicine and healthcare in everyday literate lifeworlds
… practices of reception that patients and medical professionals use in their everyday lives as they engage health-related information. People demonstrate their active uptake of professional writing through engagements with a variety of health-related texts, including technical texts, to …
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Conscientious Object-ion: Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Medical Controversy
… achieve. Existing studies of vaccine disputes in medical literature have understood vaccine questions to be a problem of scientific knowledge or literacy, claiming largely that vaccine skepticism arises from a lack of proper comprehension or understanding of the scientific and medical bases for …
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The Rhetorical Making Of An Illness: Medical Refusal, Trope, And Improvisation In A Somali Women'S Health Center
… broadly, and how these understandings influence medical decision-making. This study, developed in partnership with a Somali women's health center, asks how Somali parents understand autism, use services, and navigate divides between biomedical and other forms of care. To do so, I explore and …