Ethical or unethical persuasion?: The rhetoric of offers to participate in clinical trials

Written Communication

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 295-319

  Barton, Ellen ^a   Eggly, Susan ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Clinical trial recruitment; Discourse analysis; Ethics in interaction; Medical communication; Medical ethics; Medical rhetoric; Physician patient interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650593881     PISSN: 07410883     EISSN: 15528472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741088309336936     Document Type: Article

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