Living Chronic: Agency and Expertise in the Rhetoric of Diabetes

ISBN-13: 9780814253878 Publisher: Ohio State University Press Publication date: 02/01/2017 Edition description: 1 Pages: 220 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d) Diabetes, referred to as an epidemic for more than a decade, remains one of our most significant health issues in the twenty-first century. Because self-management is an important component of living with the disease, the biomedical concept of patient agency has long stressed notions of individual responsibility and autonomy. However, dramatic shifts in both health care and cultural practices call for a reassessment of traditional definitions of patient agency.Lora Arduser’s Living Chronic: Agency and Expertise in the Rhetoric of Diabetes answers this call with a unique rhetorical examination of one of the most critical issues in contemporary health: how we live and work with being chronic. Through her perceptive analysis of the discourse of both people with diabetes and health care providers, Arduser presents a ne