Technology as the Representative Anecdote in Popular Discourses of Health and Medicine

Using a Burkean framework (1969), this article approaches medical dramas as cultural texts to be read for dominant meanings of health and health care. Burke's representative anecdote illuminates the melding of science, technology, and healing in popular discourses of health, establishing techno...

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Published in:Health communication 2001-01, Vol.13 (4), p.409-425
Main Authors: Harter, Lynn M., Japp, Phyllis M.
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Clinical Competence
Complementary Therapies
Discourses
Drama
Health
Humans
Mass Media
Medical Laboratory Science
Medical technology
Medicine
Nature
Philosophy, Medical
Television
Television programmes
United States
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