Colleen Derkatch
Associate Professor Faculty of Arts Department of English Toronto, Ontario derkatch@torontomu.ca
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Dr. Derkatch is an Associate Professor of rhetoric in the Department of English. She received her PhD in English Language at the University of British Columbia.
Her research in rhetoric of health and medicine examines how language shapes and is shaped by various, often embodied, and som...
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Her research in rhetoric of health and medicine examines how language shapes and is shaped by various, often embodied, and som...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Derkatch is an Associate Professor of rhetoric in the Department of English. She received her PhD in English Language at the University of British Columbia.
Her research in rhetoric of health and medicine examines how language shapes and is shaped by various, often embodied, and sometimes conflicting forms of expertise about illness, treatment and health. Her book, Bounding Biomedicine: Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of Alternative Medicine, examines how scientific research on alternative health practices constitutes the boundaries between what counts as safe, effective health care and what does not. Her next book is on the rhetorics of wellness in public discourse about natural health products.
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Her research in rhetoric of health and medicine examines how language shapes and is shaped by various, often embodied, and sometimes conflicting forms of expertise about illness, treatment and health. Her book, Bounding Biomedicine: Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of Alternative Medicine, examines how scientific research on alternative health practices constitutes the boundaries between what counts as safe, effective health care and what does not. Her next book is on the rhetorics of wellness in public discourse about natural health products.
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