Examples Of Medical Discourse

Gee defines Discourses as a way of being in the world; they are forms of life which integrate words, acts, values, beliefs, attitudes and social identities as well as gestures, glances, body positions, and clothes. (Gee 278) I decided to do my paper on The World Overcomers Church because I wanted to learn how a church is considered a discourse community. According to Swale’s there are six characteristics that make up a discourse community. They are common goals, mechanisms of intercommunication among members, participatory mechanisms to provide information and feedback, utilizing one or more genres in communication, a specific lexis, and a threshold level of members with a degree of relevant content and discourse expertise. (Swale 321) I had to go to the church to observe to understand how it is considered a discourse community. The churches goal is to obtain happiness, values, beliefs of ethnic and morals to trust in god and have faith.

To be a part of a discourse community, one must be credible, possess factual knowledge and draw on the values of its members to be accepted into the community. At the same time, a person must learn typical ways people in that community communicate and argue. They share a certain genre—type of writing. Members of discourse communities provide information and feedback that are imperative in order for that discourse community to grow. In the following paper, I will discuss three discourse communities and a genre that they typically use: people who read Nutritional Facts religiously, college students, and industrial organizational psychologists.

A philosopher named Ivan Illich was one of the first people to use the term medicalization; he believed the medical profession was harmful and termed it as iatrogenesis, which is where the illness or social problems are caused from the medical professionals themselves (Medanth [1]). He believed that this occurred on three levels. The first level is Clinical, which is described as the side effects being worse than the original condition. Social, the second level, is where people were reliant on their doctors to help cope

Life is like a massive highway that have infinite routes anyone can choose take to reach some type of designated goal. Those various routes lead to distinct exits, where one can discover a group or groups that share similarities dealing with viewpoints, beliefs, or understanding towards a particular goal. These groups can be identified as discourse communities. According to, “The Concept of Discourse Community,” in the textbook, Writing About Writing, John Swales stressed that in order to be classified as a discourse community the group has to have all six defining characteristics. Swales emphasized, “A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals, mechanisms of intercommunication among its members, uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback, utilities and hence processes one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims, acquires specific lexis, and has a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discourse expertise” (Swales, 221-222). Keeping this key detail in mind, there is numerous type of discourse out there.

The Center for Neuroscience (CN) is a complex, large community that sparked my interest to do an ethnographic endeavor. This group provides benefits to our society by conducting modern neurobiology research and coaching future neurobiologists. The purpose of this ethnographic study is to have a better understanding of how this discourse community functions as an entity. My study will focus on the methods that the CN uses to communicate. As a member of the CN, I want to take a step back and explore, from the perspective of an outsider, the rhetoric mechanisms that make their goals achievable.

This semester has been one of the most challenging ones by far. I found myself thinking more critically in this class in comparison to many of my Biotechnology classes. Before entering this class this semester I assumed that I wouldn’t have to do much work because I had already had personal experience with the course. The previous class taught me how to structurally write a rhetorical critique. This semester in Rhetoric and Communication I had to take it a step further by understanding the implication of the rhetoric being presented and why did the creator of this rhetoric feel that the way they were presenting it be effective in comparison to the other was their ideas could have been presented. This semester my class mates and I looked at a number of ways at which rhetoric is created and used in health and medicine. Some of these rhetorical concepts were very abstract and often difficult to understand such as the three waves of feminism. Other rhetorical concepts

A medical setting in which a patient feels safe and secure is more likely to create the conditions in which optimal outcomes can be achieved. Part of helping to ensure a patient feels secure is addressing the communication barriers between the provider and the patient. Some of these barriers arise from the use of professional jargon. Surgeons, Physicians, Nurses, etc. work at a fast pace to make sure that every patient is attended to. As this is their profession, medical jargon is used frequently when communicating to each other, figuring out a diagnosis, and coming up with a treatment plan for the patient. But this medical jargon creates a barrier between the healthcare professional and the patient. There can be misunderstandings between the patient and the professional when it comes to diagnoses and treatment plans due to the communication barrier. The professionals commonly use medical terminology to inform the patient of their status and a patient may simply nod their head to be polite. This nod does not necessarily mean that there is a mutual understanding, it could potentially mean that they are overwhelmed and don’t know how else to act in response to long confusing words being directed at them. This is dangerous because a patient could leave the facility not knowing how to appropriately take care of themselves after their procedure/diagnosis. Medical jargon has the potential to cause the patient and medical professional relationship to be both broken and

When I began the quarter I had no previous any knowledge about "discourse", as the quarter progressed I have learned a lot about this idea of discourse. Although there are a lot of different ideas of what "discourse", I think they share some common things. You become a member of an institution or group, that share similarities and have a specific goals to accomplish that pertain to literacy. You have to be able to work as a group to make sure you accomplish these common goals. There are a couple of things that they have in common. First of all you have to have lexis, which is important in able to communicate and have these special language . This allows you to distinguish yourself from other communities, and allows you to communicate with the members of the group. If you don’t understand the lexis, than you will not be accepted by the group. Another important part is having one or more genres, which is important to make sure that the goals of the group get met. The last thing that I think is important is that you having boundaries or rules, that people know are not okay to do. For example, in an academic community everyone would agree that plagiarism is completely wrong and accepted. These are a couple of things that I found present throughout all the articles I read.

DESCRIPTIVE PHASE - The second day of clinical at Western State Hospital, my objective for this day was to have at least a 5 minutes conversation with my client, however when I arrived my client was not at the hospital, he went to department of motor vehicle (DMV) to renew his driver license. After he came back I went and reminded him, who I was and why I was there, he remembered me, without any delay I expressed how excited I was to talk to him, we talked almost more than 10 minutes, reasonably he was in positive mood. I felt relatively we had candid, warm, and productive conversation. However during our conversation many times my client looked around his surroundings cautiously and gazed at some of the people in the room. We talked about from the line at the department of motor vehicle, football, soccer to his plan of cutting back on alcohol and following through sobriety. He talked about his child hood memories, playing on afield all day with his friends in California and how he ended up broken his leg during a car accident, when he was 20 years old, which forced him to be amputated. He took a long breath, went quite for seconds and stared at the left side glass

Illich (1990) even went as to say that themedical proffesion (including pharmaceutical companies and medical equipment suppliers) have a vested interest in illness so they create illnesses which have to be treated by doctors and drugs etc. this means conditions that used to be seen as natural, such as dying or unhappiness have now undergone a social iatrogenesis (doctor caused illness) whereby people cannot handle their own health anymore. postmodernists dislike this use of medical discourse because one theory has more prestige that it should be considered the truth.

Medical knowledge is a social construction where privileged individuals get the best medical advice (Nettleton, 2013, p. 17). An example is how psychiatrists socially construct a mental illness since they are one of the most powerful individuals in the medical field (Nettleton, 2013, p.16). They have the power to deem someone as unfit (Nettleton, 2013, p. 16). Certain medical technologies that evolved over time due to advances in society helped with the social construction of medical knowledge (Nettleton, 2013, p.22).

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The third paper to be written in EN100 was the observation essay. In this essay, the class had to observe a specific discourse community they were involved in. “A discourse community is a group of individuals who share common beliefs, assumptions, and methods of communications” (Growing 1). In Growing in Faith, I discuss what discourse I belong to. When writing about this topic, I had made a plethora of mistakes including: organization, correctness and development. Nevertheless, these were corrected by the final draft.

Discourse acts as walls that constrain actions and speeches which can take the form of power (Raby, 2002, pg 430). The

There are many concepts that appear in Margaret Edson’s play, W;t that also appear in the classroom textbook, Communicating in Health, by Athena du Pre. Throughout pages nineteen through thirty-one of Edson’s W;t, important concepts that appear include transactional communication, physician centered interview, motivational interviewing, patient centered interview, health history form, self-advocacy, and teamwork.