Colleen Derkatch is assistant professor of rhetoric in the Department of English and vice chair of the Research Ethics Board at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.
"Bounding Biomedicine makes a groundbreaking methodological
contribution to the rhetoric of health and medicine through its
innovative variation of a rhetorical-cultural approach. In the
process of examining a contextualized historical moment of boundary
negotiation from multiple perspectives, Derkatch shows how
rhetorical analysis can be culturally informed and multiangled, but
also focused and fıne-grained."--J. Blake Scott "Rhetoric & Public
Affairs"
"Bounding Biomedicine deepens our understanding of how the borders
between mainstream and complementary and alternative medicine are
drawn and redrawn and illuminates the complex roles that competing
forms of evidence play in that process. This book will be of
interest to medical professionals, scholars, and practitioners
alike."--Lisa Keränen, author of Scientific Characters: Rhetoric,
Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research
"Derkatch's Bounding Biomedicine is a valuable rhetorical analysis
of how the boundary between conventional and alternative medicine
has been drawn, patrolled, and renegotiated. Focusing on the moment
in 1998 when the Journal of the American Medical Association and
its eleven associated journals published special issues on
complementary and alternative medicine, Bounding Biomedicine offers
a deeply textured account of how two incommensurable frames of
medical practice met. Derkatch's book sets a new standard for
research in medical rhetoric."--Susan Wells, author of Our Bodies,
Ourselves and the Work of Writing
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