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Communicating health and illness / Richard Gwyn

London : SAGE, 2002

Online-Ressource (182 p) : ill., 1 map, 1 port

Englisch

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Key to Transcription Symbols; Introduction; Chapter 1 - The Body, Disease and Discourse; Chapter 2 - 'Lay' Talk about Health and Illness; Chapter 3 - Power, Asymmetry and Decision Making in Medical Encounters; Chapter 4 - The Media, Expert Opinion and Health Scares; Chapter 5 - Metaphors of Sickness and Recovery; Chapter 6 - Narrative and the Voicing of Illness; Conclusion; References; Index

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version: Communicating Health and Illness

978-1-4129-3230-1 ; 0-7619-6475-4 (pbk.); 0-7619-6474-6 (cased)

978-0-7619-6474-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

R118

306.461014     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Health in mass media ; Communication in medicine

Health promotion ; Electronic books

This accessible book provides a cogent review of the literature on discourse analysis as it pertains to medical and health matters. It demonstrates the centrality of discourse analysis to an understanding of health and communication. Introducing original research from his own studies, Richard Gwyn focuses on language and communication issues