Blending Humanistic and Rhetorical Analysis to Locate Gendered Dimensions of Kenyan Medical Practitioner Attitudes About Cancer

Miriam Mara; Andrew Mara

doi:10.1080/10572252.2018.1401344

Blending Humanistic and Rhetorical Analysis to Locate Gendered Dimensions of Kenyan Medical Practitioner Attitudes About Cancer

Miriam Mara, Andrew Mara

Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, School of (SHARCS)

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Medical humanities and the rhetoric of health and medicine apply different methods to healthcare documents and discourses. This methodological reflection of a project studying cancer attitudes in Kenya describes how researchers combined practices from these disparate fields to produce more sensitive and ethical methods for studying cross-cultural contexts. By extending humanistic methods into social-science data collections, researchers were better able to ask precise questions and to perceive context-specific cues for consent and non-consent.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	93-107
Number of pages	15
Journal	Technical Communication Quarterly
Volume	27
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2018.1401344
State	Published - Jan 2 2018

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Action research
gender research
health/medical communication
intercultural communication
research methods

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