Beschreibung:
This book explores rhetorical ethos and its ongoing role in patients' credibility and in misdiagnoses stemming from gender, race and class-based biases. Drawing on the concept of ethos as a theoretical framework, it explores health and mental illness across different conditions and across different methodological approaches.
Chapter One: Introduction: Theorizing Vernacular Credibility and How Patients Mobilize Ethos Chapter Two: Vulnerable Rhetors and Stigma in Health and Medicine Chapter Three: Contested Diagnoses and Ethos: How Patients Push Back When Care Providers Misdiagnose Somatic Symptoms Chapter Four: Phantom Limb Pain and Tacit Appeals to Ethos: When Patients' Self-Knowledge Exceeds Existing Clinical Knowledge and Predicts Future Clinical Findings Chapter Five: Recuperative Ethos and Agile Epistemologies in Mental Health and Beyond Chapter Six: Conclusion: Toward a Methodology for Studying Everyday Ethos in Clinical Settings