Transcendent Ecologies: Protestantism and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Birth Medicine.
This essay investigates the role of religion in the development of modern obstetrics, forging a connection between rhetoric of health and medicine and rhetoric of religion. To study this convergence, I combine Kenneth Burke's "terministic screens" with Jenny Edbauer's "rhetorical ecologies." In part...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Communication & Religion Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 47 - 65 |
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Religious Communication Association
Summer2024
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| Sumario: | This essay investigates the role of religion in the development of modern obstetrics, forging a connection between rhetoric of health and medicine and rhetoric of religion. To study this convergence, I combine Kenneth Burke's "terministic screens" with Jenny Edbauer's "rhetorical ecologies." In particular, I analyze a variety of mid-nineteenth-century texts on midwifery/obstetrics to demonstrate how writers communicated within a transcendent ecology. Ultimately, I show that Protestant terms and beliefs were essential to not only sectarian, but also allopathic arguments about medical intercession in childbirth. |
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