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

ISBN-13: 9781032176888 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 180 str.

Cathryn Molloy

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Chapter One: Introduction: Theorizing Vernacular Credibility and How Patients Mobilize Ethos Chapter Two: Vulnerable Rhetors and Stigma in Health and Medicine Chapter Three: Contested Diagnoses and Ethos: How Patients Push Back When Care Providers Misdiagnose Somatic Symptoms Chapter Four: Phantom Limb Pain and Tacit Appeals to Ethos: When Patients’ Self-Knowledge Exceeds Existing Clinical Knowledge and Predicts Future Clinical Findings Chapter Five: Recuperative Ethos and Agile Epistemologies in Mental Health and Beyond Chapter Six: Conclusion: Toward a Methodology for Studying Everyday Ethos in Clinical Settings

O autorze

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.