Rhetorical ethos in health and medicine : patient credibility, stigma, and misdiagnosis /

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 diffe...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Molloy, Cathryn
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, [2020]
Series:	Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication.
Subjects:	Medicine > Language. Rhetoric. Communication. Social Discrimination. Diagnostic Errors. Physician-Patient Relations. Ebooks. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book