Patients Making Meaning Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health
Brand: Routledge
Description
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. | Patients Making Meaning Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health
