Rhetoric in the flesh : trained vision, technical expertise, and the gross anatomy lab /
Rhetoric in the Flesh is the first book-length ethnographic study of the gross anatomy lab to explain how rhetorical discourses, multimodal displays, and embodied practices facilitate learning and technical expertise and how they shape participants' perceptions of the human body. By investigati...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Series: | ATTW book series in technical and professional communication.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Rhetoric in the Flesh is the first book-length ethnographic study of the gross anatomy lab to explain how rhetorical discourses, multimodal displays, and embodied practices facilitate learning and technical expertise and how they shape participants' perceptions of the human body. By investigating the role that discourses, displays, and human bodies play in the training and socialization of medical students, T. Kenny Fountain contributes to our theoretical and practical understanding of the social factors that make rhetoric possible and material in technical domains. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. Description based on opening page (viewed Dec 08, 2017). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9781317807629 1317807626 |