Routledge Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine - Routledge Books

Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine explores the role of patient credibility in clinical settings. Part of the Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication series, this book examines how rhetorical ethos affects medical outcomes and contributes to misdiagnoses. It investigates how biases related to gender, race, and class influence the way healthcare providers perceive patients. By using ethos as a theoretical framework, the text analyzes health and mental illness through various methodological approaches. The research extends existing studies on clinical encounters and public discourse regarding biomedicine. It also introduces new research focused on the rhetoric of mental health and the impact of stigma. Readers will gain insight into how bias in clinical settings can lead to symptoms being labeled in ways that affect patient care and diagnostic accuracy.