Argumentation and health / edited by Sara Rubinelli, A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans.

This chapter is concerned with the reasons why sometimes good arguments in health communication leaflets fail to convince the targeted audience. As an illustrative example it uses the age-dependent eligibility of women in the Netherlands to receive routine breast cancer screening examinations: accor...

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Other Authors: Rubinelli, Sara, Snoeck Henkemans, Arnolda Francisca
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Series:Benjamins current topics ; Volume 64.
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Summary:This chapter is concerned with the reasons why sometimes good arguments in health communication leaflets fail to convince the targeted audience. As an illustrative example it uses the age-dependent eligibility of women in the Netherlands to receive routine breast cancer screening examinations: according to Dutch regulations women under 50 are ineligible for them. The present qualitative study rests on and complements three experimental studies on the persuasiveness of mammography information leaflets; it uses interviews to elucidate reasons why the arguments in the health communication leaflet.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 147 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027269843
902726984X
1306942691
9781306942690
9027242526
9789027242525
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.