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Save Lives or Save the Rhetoric?

Author : David H. Goldenberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 076187206X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Book Synopsis Save Lives or Save the Rhetoric? by : David H. Goldenberg

Download or read book Save Lives or Save the Rhetoric? written by David H. Goldenberg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Save Lives or Save the Rhetoric? is for those who think for themselves and follow the logic and the evidence wherever it leads. It offers an alternative to believing what others tell us through the media, the pundits, the politicians and all those partisans who benefit from their particular narratives. Whether we know it or not, we are inundated with rhetoric that is based on the numerous forms of flawed reasoning and fallacies which are discussed in this book. The first step is to develop the skills needed to distinguish between rhetorical claims and evidence-based claims. This book provides a method to accomplish that. David H. Goldenberg presents and shows how to debug many currently relevant real world examples. Innovative discussion questions provide the reader an opportunity to practice and be actively involved. This book is not about taking positions but about learning how to analyze and assess them using logic, evidence, data analysis, and economics—not confirmation bias. Hopefully the reader will resist the rhetoric, with its reductionism and polarization, by depoliticizing their approach to this book’s intent and content. The goal of the examples, theory, case studies, economics, statistics, historical documents, and data analysis offered in Save Lives or Save the Rhetoric? is to provide citizens with an informed approach to examining and evaluating the issues, the rhetoric, and the evidence in order to ultimately make their own informed decisions. The second part of the book delves into concepts and methods that any intelligent citizen may apply in order to make informed decisions about policy proposals. The objective throughout is pedagogy, not partisanship: to help the reader better understand current events, better identify the rhetoric in partisan debates, and better evaluate public policy.

Awful Archives

Author : Jenny Rice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814214350
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Awful Archives written by Jenny Rice and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of exaggerated cases of conspiracy theories which helps to reveal why traditional modes of argument fail against unwarranted, unsound, or untrue evidence.

Bounding Biomedicine

Author : Colleen Derkatch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022634584X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Bounding Biomedicine written by Colleen Derkatch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1990s, unprecedented numbers of Americans turned to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), an umbrella term encompassing health practices such as chiropractic, energy healing, herbal medicine, homeopathy, meditation, naturopathy, and traditional Chinese medicine. By 1997, nearly half the US population was seeking CAM in one form or another, spending at least $27 billion out-of-pocket annually on related products and services. As CAM rose in popularity over the decade, so did mainstream medicine's interest in understanding whether those practices actually worked, and how. Medical researchers devoted considerable effort to testing CAM interventions in clinical trials, and medical educators scrambled to assist physicians in advising patients about CAM. In Bounding Biomedicine, Colleen Derkatch examines how the rhetorical discourse around the published research on this issue allowed the medical profession to maintain its position of privilege and prestige throughout this process, even as its place at the top of the healthcare hierarchy appeared to be weakening. Her research focuses on the ground-breaking and somewhat controversial CAM-themed issues of The Journal of the American Medical Association and its nine specialized Archives journals from 1998, demonstrating how these texts performed rhetorical boundary work for the medical profession. As Derkatch reveals, the question of how to test healthcare practices that don't fit easily (or at all) within mainstream Western medical frameworks sweeps us into the realm of medical knowledge-making--the research teams, clinical trials, and medical journals that determine which treatments are safe and effective--and also out into the world where doctors meet patients, illnesses find treatment, and values, practices, policies, and priorities intersect. Through Bounding Biomedicine, Derkatch shows exactly how narratives of medicine's entanglements with competing models of healthcare shape not only the historical episodes they narrate but also the very fabric of medical knowledge itself and how the medical profession is made and remade through its own discursive activity.

Rhetoric and Evidence

Author : Peter Schneck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110253771
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Evidence written by Peter Schneck and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book traces the changing relation and intense debates between law and literature in U.S. American culture, using examples from the 18th to the 20th century (including novels by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Harper Lee, and William Gaddis). Since the early American republic, the critical representation of legal matters in literary fictions and cultural narratives about the law served an important function for the cultural imagination and legitimation of law and justice in the United States. One of the most essential questions that literary representations of the law are concerned with, the study argues, is the unstable relation between language and truth, or, more specifically, between rhetoric and evidence. In examining the truth claims of legal language and rhetoric and the evidentiary procedures and protocols which are meant to stabilize these claims, literary fictions about the law aim to provide an alternative public discourse that translates the law's abstractions into exemplary stories of individual experience. Yet while literature may thus strive to institute itself as an ethical counter narrative to the law, in order to become, in Shelley’s famous phrase “the legislator of the world”, it has to face the instability of its own relation to truth. The critical investigation of legal rhetoric in literary fiction thus also and inevitably entails a negotiation of the intrinsic value of literary evidence.

About Writing

Author : Robin Jeffrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book About Writing written by Robin Jeffrey and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Character Evidence in the Courts of Classical Athens

Author : Vasileios Adamidis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317168437
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Character Evidence in the Courts of Classical Athens written by Vasileios Adamidis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been much debate in scholarship over the factors determining the outcome of legal hearings in classical Athens. Specifically, there is divergence regarding the extent to which judicial panels were influenced by non-legal considerations in addition to, or even instead of, questions of law. Ancient rhetorical theory and practice devoted much attention to character and it is this aspect of Athenian law which forms the focus of this book. Close analysis of the dispute-resolution passages in ancient Greek literature reveals striking similarities with the rhetoric of litigants in the Athenian courts and thus helps to shed light on the function of the courts and the fundamental nature of Athenian law. The widespread use of character evidence in every aspect of argumentation can be traced to the Greek ideas of ‘character’ and ‘personality’, the inductive method of reasoning, and the social, political and institutional structures of the ancient Greek polis. According to the author’s proposed method of interpretation, character evidence was not a means of diverting the jury’s attention away from the legal issues; instead, it was a constructive and relevant way of developing a legal argument.

The Rhetoric of Seeing in Attic Forensic Oratory

Author : Peter A. O'Connell
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 147731170X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Seeing in Attic Forensic Oratory written by Peter A. O'Connell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Athenian courts of law, litigants presented their cases before juries of several hundred citizens. Their speeches effectively constituted performances that used the speakers' appearances, gestures, tones of voice, and emotional appeals as much as their words to persuade the jury. Today, all that remains of Attic forensic speeches from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE are written texts, but, as Peter A. O'Connell convincingly demonstrates in this innovative book, a careful study of the speeches' rhetoric of seeing can bring their performative aspect to life. Offering new interpretations of a wide range of Athenian forensic speeches, including detailed discussions of Demosthenes' On the False Embassy, Aeschines' Against Ktesiphon, and Lysias' Against Andocides, O'Connell shows how litigants turned the jurors' scrutiny to their advantage by manipulating their sense of sight. He analyzes how the litigants' words work together with their movements and physical appearance, how they exploit the Athenian preference for visual evidence through the language of seeing and showing, and how they plant images in their jurors' minds. These findings, which draw on ancient rhetorical theories about performance, seeing, and knowledge as well as modern legal discourse analysis, deepen our understanding of Athenian notions of visuality. They also uncover parallels among forensic, medical, sophistic, and historiographic discourses that reflect a shared concern with how listeners come to know what they have not seen.

Elements of Rhetoric

Author : Richard Whately
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Elements of Rhetoric written by Richard Whately and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elements of Rhetoric

Author : Richard Whately
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elements of Rhetoric written by Richard Whately and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elements of Rhetoric

Author : Richard Whately
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
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Download or read book Elements of Rhetoric written by Richard Whately and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine

Author : Judy Z. Segal
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809386267
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine written by Judy Z. Segal and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing rhetorical principles of contemporary health issues Hypochondriacs are vulnerable to media hype, anorexics are susceptible to public scrutiny, and migraine sufferers are tainted with the history of the “migraine personality,” maintains rhetorical theorist Judy Z. Segal. All are influenced by the power of persuasion. Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine explores persistent health conditions that resist conventional medical solutions. Using a range of rhetorical principles, Segal analyzes how patients and their illnesses are formed within the physician/patient relationship. The intractable problem of a patient’s rejection of a doctor’s advice, says Segal, can be considered a rhetorical failure—a failure of persuasion. Examining the discourse of medicine through case studies, applications, and analyses, Segal illustrates how illnesses are described in ways that limit patients’ choices and satisfaction. She also illuminates psychiatric conditions, infectious diseases, genetic testing, and cosmetic surgeries through the lens of rhetorical theory. Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine bridges critical analysis for scholarly, professional, and lay audiences. Segal highlights the persuasive element in diagnosis, health policy, illness experience, and illness narratives. She also addresses questions of direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs, the role of health information in creating the “worried well” and problems of trust and expertise in physician/patient relationships. A useful resource for critical common sense in everyday life, the text provides an effective examination of a society increasingly influenced by the rhetoric of health and medicine.

Writing Adn Rhetoric Book 1: Fable

Author : Tchr Edition
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781600512179
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Writing Adn Rhetoric Book 1: Fable written by Tchr Edition and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing & Rhetoric Book 1: Fable Teacher's Edition includes the comlete studetn text, as well as answer keys, teacher's notes, and explanations. For every writing assignment, this edition also supplies descriptions and examples of waht excellentstudent writing should look like, providing the teacher with meaningful and concrete guidance."

The Art of Rhetoric

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1398805815
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Rhetoric written by Aristotle and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Moral character, so to say, constitutes the most effective means of proof.' In ancient Greece, rhetoric was at the centre of public life. Many writers attempted to provide manuals to help improve debating skills, but it was not until Aristotle produced The Art of Rhetoric in the 4th century bc that the subject had a true masterpiece. As he considered the role of emotion, reason, and morality in speech, Aristotle created essential guidelines for argument and prose style that would influence writers for more than two millennia. Brilliantly explained and carefully reasoned, The Art of Rhetoric remains as relevant today as it was in the assemblies of ancient Athens.

Elements of Rhetoric

Author : Richard Whately
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Elements of Rhetoric written by Richard Whately and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rhetoric in the New World

Author : Don Paul Abbott
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570030857
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric in the New World written by Don Paul Abbott and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abbott's study begins with an examination of the Spanish rhetorical tradition - a tradition that would affect many aspects of the colonial enterprise, including the campaign to Christianize the New World, the European perceptions of indigenous discourse, and the effort to transplant humanistic educational institutions to Spain's two great colonies, Mexico and Peru.

ELEMENTS OF RHETORIC

Author : RICHARD. WHATELY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033136102
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book ELEMENTS OF RHETORIC written by RICHARD. WHATELY and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rhetoric in Ancient China, Fifth to Third Century B.C.E

Author : Xing Lu
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643362909
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric in Ancient China, Fifth to Third Century B.C.E written by Xing Lu and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xing Lu examines language, art, persuasion, and argumentation in ancient China and offers a detailed and authentic account of ancient Chinese rhetorical theories and practices within the society's philosophical, political, cultural, and linguistic contexts. She focuses on the works of five schools of thought and ten well-known Chinese thinkers from Confucius to Han Feizi to the the Later Mohists. Lu identifies seven key Chinese terms pertaining to speech, language, persuasion, and argumentation as they appeared in these original texts, selecting ming bian as the linchpin for the Chinese conceptual term of rhetorical studies. Lu compares Chinese rhetorical perspectives with those of the ancient Greeks, illustrating that the Greeks and the Chinese shared a view of rhetoric as an ethical enterprise and of speech as a rational and psychological activity. The two traditions differed, however, in their rhetorical education, sense of rationality, perceptions of the role of language, approach to the treatment and study of rhetoric, and expression of emotions. Lu also links ancient Chinese rhetorical perspectives with contemporary Chinese interpersonal and political communication behavior and offers suggestions for a multicultural rhetoric that recognizes both culturally specific and transcultural elements of human communication.