Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in analyzing discursive practices of contemporary medicine. As health increasingly becomes a contested sociopolitical issue, a discourse-based approach offers a promising means of revealing practical realities of health care, as well as taken-for-granted beliefs and practices embedded in health institutions. Exploring Health Communication is among these efforts to employ a discursive lens to analyze language in health, exploring how the concepts of health, illness, and well-being are shaped and reproduced both inside and outside clinical settings.
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