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Author King, Carie S. Tucker, author

Title The rhetoric of breast cancer : patient-to-patient discourse in an online community / Carie S. Tucker King
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 181 pages)
Series Lexington studies in health communication
Contents Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Online Communities and Patient Discourse -- 2 The Rhetoric of Breast Cancer -- 3 Patients, Medical Care, and Rhetoric -- 4 Concerns Related to Privacy, Online Disclosure, and Ethics -- 5 Big Data and the Rhetorics of Health and Medicine -- References -- Index
Summary This book analyzes how women converse about breast cancer on the Internet. The author provides a discussion of the complex structures of online communities, particularly those focused on medical diagnoses
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 18, 2017)
Subject Communication in medicine.
Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- Social networks
Social media in medicine.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Communication in medicine
Social media in medicine
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017043165
ISBN 9781498552455
1498552455