Patients making meaning : theorizing sources of information and forms of support in women's health / by Bryna Siegel Finer, Cathryn Molloy and Jamie White-Farnham.

Author/creator Finer, Bryna Siegel author.
Other author Molloy, Cathryn, author.
Other author White-Farnham, Jamie, author.
Format Electronic
PublicationNew York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Copyright Date©2024
Description1 online resource (x, 111 pages) : illustrations.
Supplemental ContentEbook Central
Subjects

SeriesRoutledge studies in rhetoric and communication ; 45
Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication ; 45. ^A1054683
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
General note"Routledge Focus" -- from cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Biographical noteBryna 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.
Source of descriptionDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 27, 2023).
Issued in other formPrint version: Finer, Bryna Siegel. Patients making meaning New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 9781032503943
LCCN 2023032240
ISBN9781003398318 electronic book
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ISBNhardcover
ISBNpaperback
Standard identifier# 10.4324/9781003398318
Stock number9781003398318 Taylor & Francis

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