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

“Wellness” as Incipient Illness: Dietary Supplements in a Biomedical Culture

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“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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2012-10-15
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