Diagnosing Madness(1st Edition) The Discursive Construction of the Psychiatric Patient, 1850-1920 (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication) by CarolBerkenkotter, Cristina Hanganu-Bresch Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-64336-025-6, ISBN: 1-64336-025-6
"Diagnosing Madness is a study of the linguistic negotiations at the heart of mental illness identification and patient diagnosis. Through an examination of individual psychiatric case records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and Carol Berkenkotter show how the work of psychiatry was navigated by patients, families, doctors, the general public, and the legal system. The results of examining ..."
"Although genre studies abound in literary criticism, researchers and scholars interested in the social contexts of literacy have recently become interested in the dynamic, rhetorical dimensions of speech genres. Within this burgeoning scholarly community, the authors are among the first researchers working within social science traditions to study genre from the perspective of the implicit knowledge of language users. Thus, this is the ..."
"Although genre studies abound in literary criticism, researchers and scholars interested in the social contexts of literacy have recently become interested in the dynamic, rhetorical dimensions of speech genres. Within this burgeoning scholarly community, the authors are among the first researchers working within social science traditions to study genre from the perspective of the implicit knowledge of language users. Thus, this is the ..."
Patient Tales Case Histories and the Uses of Narrative in Psychiatry (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication) by CarolBerkenkotter Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57003-761-0, ISBN: 1-57003-761-2
"This book looks into communicating psychiatric patient histories, from the asylum years to the clinics of today. In this engrossing study of tales of mental illness, Carol Berkenkotter examines the evolving role of case history narratives in the growth of psychiatry as a medical profession. "Patient Tales" follows the development of psychiatric case histories from their origins at Edinburgh Medical School and the Royal Edinburgh Infirma ..."
"Although genre studies abound in literary criticism, researchers and scholars interested in the social contexts of literacy have recently become interested in the dynamic, rhetorical dimensions of speech genres. Within this burgeoning scholarly community, the authors are among the first researchers working within social science traditions to study genre from the perspective of the implicit knowledge of language users. Thus, this is the ..."
"Although genre studies abound in literary criticism, researchers and scholars interested in the social contexts of literacy have recently become interested in the dynamic, rhetorical dimensions of speech genres. Within this burgeoning scholarly community, the authors are among the first researchers working within social science traditions to study genre from the perspective of the implicit knowledge of language users. Thus, this is the ..."
Patient Tales Case Histories and the Uses of Narrative in Psychiarty by CarolBerkenkotter 223 Pages, Published 2022 by Univ Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-64336-405-6, ISBN: 1-64336-405-7
"Case Histories and the Uses of Narrative in Psychiarty Carol Berkenkotter. were also contributors to the growth of knowledge about the nature and causes of mental illness. Thus, reporting the history of the individual case as ..."
"This volume presents the latest research of an international group of scholars, engaged in the analysis of academic discourse from a genre-oriented perspective. The area covered by this volume is a central one, as in the last few years important developments in research on academic discourse have not only concerned the more traditional genres, but, as well, generic innovations promoted by the new technologies, employed both in the prese ..."