Open AccessMedical Law and Rhetorical Modes of its Presentation in an Institutional Discourse: An Issue Statement
Author(s) -
И.В. Анненкова,
L. V. Stebeneva,
N. M. Golovina
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
kutafin law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-0533
pISSN - 2713-0525
DOI - 10.17803/2313-5395.2022.1.19.156-174
Subject(s) - rhetoric , rhetorical question , bioethics , health care , sociology , law , political science , philosophy , linguistics
As a result of rhetoric studies development in a specific medicine and healthcare field of interaction, scholars determined the grounds based on which rhetoric of law and medicine is singled out as a subfield of rhetoric. While medicine rhetoric is more focused on the rhetoric of science, the rhetoric analysis of substantive areas of medical law and healthcare prove that application of medicine rhetoric methodology to the areas of medical law results in dehumanization of the subjects of medical law; state healthcare policy implementation is perceived by affected communities as marketization of a national healthcare system; changes in medical law doctrines result in ethical shifts. The authors conclude that development of technologies in general and medical technologies in particular, public access to medical investigations’ results and inception of bioethics have resulted in the situation when the subjects of medical law are required to develop new approaches to communication with the audiences (or affected communities) based on rhetorical concepts.