Bryna Siegel Finer, Cathryn Molloy, Jamie White-Farnham

Patients Making Meaning (eBook, PDF)

Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women's Health

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 122
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003811510
• Artikelnr.: 68951751

Autorenporträt

Bryna Siegel Finer is Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA, where she serves as the Director of Undergraduate Writing Programs. She is the co-editor of Writing Program Architecture and Women's Health Advocacy. Cathryn Molloy is Professor of Writing Studies in the English department at the University of Delaware, USA. She is the author of Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine: Patient Credibility, Stigma, and Misdiagnosis and is co-editor of the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine journal. Jamie White-Farnham is Professor in the Writing Program at University of Wisconsin-Superior, USA, where she serves as Director of Teaching & Learning. She is the co-editor of Writing Program Architecture and Women's Health Advocacy.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Starting from Friendship and Rhetoric: An Introduction to
Patient Epistemology
Chapter 2: Toward a Theory of Patient Epistemologies: How Health
Flashpoints Engender Cyclical Rhetorical and Identity Work
Chapter 3: Searching for Meaning and Support: What Women with Breast Cancer
Say
Chapter 4: Entering the Conversation: Rhetorical Encounters with a
Stagnated Menopause Discourse
Chapter 5: Making Sense of Sobriety as a Woman: Expanding Options for
Patient Epistemologies
Chapter 6: A Rhetorical Autoethnographic Sketch of Patient Epistemology
Chapter 7: Afterword: Looking to the Future of Patient Epistemology