Rhetoric and the Origins of the Canadian Medicare System

Conrad, Charles; Cudahy, Chris

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“…This opportunity also makes it possible to contribute to the decolonization of Canada, a process envisioned by Macdonald (2013) as Indigenizing Canada's political discourse. Shaping public perceptions is an important part of political practice, and its application to Canadian health care has been analyzed in terms of rhetoric by Conrad and Cudahy (2010), demonstrating the importance of framing the debate in a way that validates one's case and connects with clearly targeted audiences. This is a resource-heavy process (think tanks, foundations, journals, etc.)…”

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Transforming First Nations Health Care in British Columbia: An Organizational Challenge

Wilmot

2018

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Following a series of agreements on First Nations health care in British Columbia beginning in 2005, several organizations were created to contribute to the development of a system of health care for First Nations in the province, with the aim of transforming First Nations health care to better meet users’ needs. This article considers the role of these organizations and their relationships with the provincial government, the federal government, and the First Nations people of British Columbia. It explores possible levels of transformation, as well as the possibilities and problems for these organizations in undertaking the transformation process, particularly with regard to their position on the boundary between the worlds of First Nations and Canada. It also considers sources of, and threats to, their legitimacy in this undertaking. Finally, wider points of relevance beyond British Columbia are identified.

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Transforming First Nations Health Care in British Columbia: An Organizational Challenge

Wilmot

2018

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New Vistas in Organizational Rhetoric

Meisenbach¹

2018

The Handbook of Organizational Rhetoric and Communication

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The Rhetoric of Healthcare and the Moral Debate About Theatre-Funded Hospitals in Early Modern Spain

Bergman

2024

J Med Humanit

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While early modern Spain may seem a world away, it is an extremely rich and relevant context for gaining a better understanding of the Rhetoric of Health, specifically the power of metaphor, in the related spheres of policy-making and public debate. It was a time and place in which the urban populace’s physical well-being depended upon the fortunes of theatrical performances due to a system of alms for hospitals driven by ticket receipts. Anti-theatricalists argued that the immoral nature of theatrical performances made them spiritually and medically detrimental to society. Pro-theatricalists argued that plays were always a public good on balance because they raised much-needed funds for hospitals. Instead of producing a conflict between morality and public health, each side reinforced their connection until the two topics became nearly inseparable in the sphere of public debate. While pro-theatricalists mainly stayed with their arguments about funding hospitals, anti-theatricalists developed a new strategy of literalising the metaphor of theatre as a “plague of the republic” and arguing that immoral entertainment brought literal disease to the populace as a punishment from God. This exemplifies Stephen Pender’s observation of how, in an early modern medical context, “Rhetoric as a way of perceiving probabilities and adjusting one’s argument to the audience and circumstance offers a model of ethical action and interaction”. This article is organised chronologically to track specific adjustments to a specific public-health debate that rely upon moral metaphors of medicine. Each side wrangled over these metaphors in an effort to break a deadlock in a public-health policy debate with entertainment, finance, and morality at its centre. By the end of the seventeenth century, anti-theatricalists finally found their best rhetorical weapon in the literalisation of the “plague of the republic” metaphor, but it only offered a short-term solution to banning theatre contingent upon the ebb and flow of epidemics. Simultaneously, the finance structure of funding hospitals began to erase the role of hospitals from the longstanding debate about the morality of public theatre. The case of early modern Spain provides valuable lessons about the power of metaphor in the Rhetoric of Healthcare that are still applicable today.

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Rhetoric and the Origins of the Canadian Medicare System

Cited by 6 publications

References 56 publications

Transforming First Nations Health Care in British Columbia: An Organizational Challenge

Transforming First Nations Health Care in British Columbia: An Organizational Challenge

New Vistas in Organizational Rhetoric

The Rhetoric of Healthcare and the Moral Debate About Theatre-Funded Hospitals in Early Modern Spain

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