Patients Making Meaning - Theorizing Sources of Information Forms of Support in Womens Health

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Bryna Siegel Finer, Bryna Siegel Molloy Finer, Cathryn Molloy, Jamie White-Farnham
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032503967
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3250396-7
• No. of pages: 112
• Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Sociology, Discourse Analysis, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Personal & public health, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Communication Studies, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Personal and public health / health education