Internet health and the 21st-century patient: A rhetorical view

Written Communication

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 351-369

  Segal, Judy Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consumer health; Cybermedicine; E health; Medical rhetoric; Patient empowerment; Rhetoric of health; Rhetoric of medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349799443     PISSN: 07410883     EISSN: 15528472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741088309342362     Document Type: Article

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