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Taking An “Ecological Turn” In The Evaluation Of Rhetorical Interventions, Peter Cannon
Taking An “Ecological Turn” In The Evaluation Of Rhetorical Interventions, Peter Cannon
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation seeks to develop a new method for the evaluation and assessment of therapeutic libraries in a health ecology. To do so, I employ a modified version of Lloyd Bitzer’s rhetorical situation as a methodological tool for the investigation of health ecologies by applying an ecological analysis to an alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment center in Tampa, Florida. By modifying Bitzer’s rhetorical situation schema and expanding the concept of health ecologies, I develop several innovations useful for tracing the impact of actants and rhetorical events specific to health and medicine. A major focus of this dissertation is a …