Discourses of Stability and Change in Patient Representation: A Critical Analysis of Medical Literature

• In Event: Critical Cultural Analysis of the Body: Technology, Medicine, Space and Gender

Abstract

Through a critical rhetorical analysis of the medical literature, this article examines how the body is called into being as a gender, prior to a patient even seeking healthcare. A corrective is presented that calls for a discursive construction of knowledge based on consent rather than consensus.

Author

• Maureen Ann Mathison, University of Utah