Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine : Patient Credibility, Stigma, and Misdiagnosis (Paperback)

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