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 …
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 …
"Women's Health Activism brings together academic studies and personal narratives to demonstrate how women use a variety of arguments, forms of writing, and communication strategies to affect change in a health system that is not only often difficult to participate in, but which…