TY - JOUR
T1 - Mapping the Terrain
T2 - Examining the Conditions for Alignment Between the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine and the Medical Humanities
AU - Hannah, Mark
AU - Arduser, Lora
PY - 2017/12/24
Y1 - 2017/12/24
N2 - This article offers an empirical study of literature in the rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) and the medical humanities (MH). Article traces the topics, funding mechanisms, research methods, theoretical frameworks, evidence types, audience, discourse arrangement patterns, and action orientation that constitute the scholarship in the sample to offer a landscape of the current state of RHM and the MH. Findings can be leveraged to assess the potential for alignment between these fields for future research.
AB - This article offers an empirical study of literature in the rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) and the medical humanities (MH). Article traces the topics, funding mechanisms, research methods, theoretical frameworks, evidence types, audience, discourse arrangement patterns, and action orientation that constitute the scholarship in the sample to offer a landscape of the current state of RHM and the MH. Findings can be leveraged to assess the potential for alignment between these fields for future research.
KW - Health/medical communication
KW - textual analysis
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U2 - 10.1080/10572252.2017.1402561
DO - 10.1080/10572252.2017.1402561
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85039049044
SN - 1057-2252
SP - 1
EP - 17
JO - Technical Communication Quarterly
JF - Technical Communication Quarterly
ER -