Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society
Oct 2012
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“Wellness” as Incipient Illness: Dietary Supplements in a Biomedical Culture
Abstract
“Wellness has become pathologized in Western culture, mapped conceptually onto a medically oriented illness model through processes that are fundamentally discursive in nature, centered on persuasion.”
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- Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society
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- 2012-10-15
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