Patient Tales - Case Histories and the Uses of Narrative in Psychiarty

Informationen zum Autor Carol Berkenkotter is a professor in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the coauthor with Thomas N. Huckin of Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication: Cognition/Culture/Power and the author of articles on case histories in psychiatry. Klappentext Looks into communicating psychiatric patient histories, from the asylum years to the clinics of today. This book examines the evolving role of case history narratives in the growth of psychiatry as a medical profession. Zusammenfassung Looks into communicating psychiatric patient histories! from the asylum years to the clinics of today. This book examines the evolving role of case history narratives in the growth of psychiatry as a medical profession.

Product details

• Authors: Carol Berkenkotter
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2009
• EAN: 9781570037610
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-761-0
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Rhetoric/Communicat; Studies in Rhetoric/Communicat; Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Rhetoric & Communic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book