Description
| Product ID: | 9781032503943 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication |
| Title: | Patients Making Meaning |
| Subtitle: | Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health |
| Authors: | Author: Bryna Siegel Finer, Jamie White-Farnham, Cathryn Molloy |
| Page Count: | 112 |
| Subjects: | Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Discourse analysis, Literature: history and criticism, Communication studies, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Sociology, Personal and public health / health education, Medical sociology, Women’s health, Literature: history & criticism, Communication studies, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Sociology, Personal & public health, Medical sociology, Women's health |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book explores how women make meaning at various health flashpoints in their lives, overcoming fear, anxiety, and anger to draw upon self-advocacy, research, and crucial decision-making. This book explores how women make meaning at various health flashpoints in their lives, overcoming fear, anxiety, and anger to draw upon self-advocacy, research, and crucial decision-making. Combining focus group research, content analysis, autoethnography, and textual inquiry, the book argues that the making and remaking of what we call “patient epistemologies” is a continual process wherein a health flashpoint—sometimes a new diagnosis, sometimes a reoccurrence or worsening of an existing condition or the progression of a natural process—can cause an individual to be thrust into a discourse community that was not of their own choosing. This study will interest students and scholars of health communication, rhetoric of health and medicine, women’s studies, public health, healthcare policy, philosophy of medicine, medical sociology, and medical humanities. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-09-20 |
