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ERIC Number: EJ517720
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0741-0883
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Language, Rhetoric, and AIDS: The Attitudes and Strategies of Key AIDS Medical Scientists and Physicians.
Reeves, Carol
Written Communication, v13 n1 p130-57 Jan 1996
Examines the experiences and rhetorical actions of key medical scientists and physicians who have treated, studied, and written about AIDS since the epidemic's beginning. Explains that those first to describe the disease report the rhetorical challenge was convincing their audience to accept the novel idea of AIDS and to see the cases as an emerging medical catastrophe. (TB)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Audience Response, Communication Research, Higher Education, Holistic Approach, Physician Patient Relationship, Physicians, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Theory, Writing (Composition)
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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