Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society Oct 2012 RSS Open Access

Inoculating the Public: Managing Vaccine Rhetoric

Abstract

“Rhetoricians of health and medicine can challenge the effectiveness of the instrumental view of persuasion entailed by the commonplaces that regulate public health, such as fact is knowledge while belief is fiction .”

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Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society
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2012-10-19
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