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Patient Tales
Carol Berkenkotter
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Description for Patient Tales
Hardcover. Looks into communicating psychiatric patient histories, from the asylum years to the clinics of today. This book examines the evolving role of case history narratives in the growth of psychiatry as a medical profession. Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication. Num Pages: 208 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
This book looks into communicating psychiatric patient histories, from the asylum years to the clinics of today. In this engrossing study of tales of mental illness, Carol Berkenkotter examines the evolving role of case history narratives in the growth of psychiatry as a medical profession. ""Patient Tales"" follows the development of psychiatric case histories from their origins at Edinburgh Medical School and the Royal Edinburgh Infirmary in the mid - eighteenth century to the medical records of contemporary American mental health clinics. Spanning two centuries and several disciplines, Berkenkotter's investigation illustrates how discursive changes in this genre mirrored evolving assumptions ... Read more
This book looks into communicating psychiatric patient histories, from the asylum years to the clinics of today. In this engrossing study of tales of mental illness, Carol Berkenkotter examines the evolving role of case history narratives in the growth of psychiatry as a medical profession. ""Patient Tales"" follows the development of psychiatric case histories from their origins at Edinburgh Medical School and the Royal Edinburgh Infirmary in the mid - eighteenth century to the medical records of contemporary American mental health clinics. Spanning two centuries and several disciplines, Berkenkotter's investigation illustrates how discursive changes in this genre mirrored evolving assumptions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Rhetoric/Communication
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570037610
SKU
V9781570037610
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About Carol Berkenkotter
Carol Berkenkotter is a professor in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the coauthor with Thomas N. Huckin of Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication: Cognition/Culture/Power and the author of articles on case histories in psychiatry.
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