In:Argumentation between Doctors and Patients: Understanding clinical argumentative discourse
Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen and Nanon Labrie
[Not in series 235] 2021
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 11 February 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.235.toc
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Table of contents
Preface
ix
Chapter 1.Argumentation between doctors and patients
1
1.1Communication and argumentation in clinical discourse
1
1.2Argumentation between doctors and patients as an argumentative activity
type
3
1.3Understanding clinical argumentative discourse
5
1.4Exploiting concepts from argumentation theory
6
1.5General outline of this volume
8
Essentials
11
Further readings
12
Chapter 2.Argumentation and resolving differences of opinion
13
2.1Differences in a clinical setting
13
2.2Standpoints and doubts
16
2.3Different types of differences
19
2.4Argumentation in support of a standpoint
21
2.5Constitutive stages of an argumentative discussion
26
Essentials
31
Further readings
32
Exercises
33
Chapter 3.The argumentation structure
37
3.1Single and complex argumentation
37
3.2Multiple, coordinative, and subordinative argumentation
39
3.3Notational conventions for representing the argumentation
structure
42
3.4Determining the structure of complex argumentation in ordinary
discourse
44
3.5Including unexpressed premises in the analysis of complex
argumentation
48
3.6Compiling an analytic overview of argumentative discourse
50
Essentials
51
Further readings
52
Exercises
52
Chapter 4.Assessing the soundness of argumentation
57
4.1Acceptability, validity, soundness
57
4.2Different types of argumentation
61
4.3Argumentation based on a symptomatic relation
63
4.4Argumentation based on a comparison relation
66
4.5Argumentation based on a causal relation
69
Essentials
71
Further readings
72
Exercises
73
Chapter 5.Fallacies in medical consultations
81
5.1Fallacies as violations of discussion rules
81
5.2Violations of the Freedom Rule (1)
83
5.3Violations of the Burden-of-Proof Rule (2)
87
5.4Violations of the Standpoint Rule (3)
89
5.5Violations of the Relevance Rule (4)
91
5.6Violations of the Unexpressed Premise Rule (5)
92
5.7Violations of the Starting Point Rule (6)
94
5.8Violations of the Validity Rule (7)
95
5.9Violations of the Argument Scheme Rule (8)
97
5.10Violations of the Closure Rule (9)
99
5.11Violations of the Usage Rule (10)
101
Essentials
104
Further readings
104
Exercises
105
Chapter 6.Strategic maneuvering in medical consultations
107
6.1Aiming for effectiveness while maintaining reasonableness
107
6.2Three aspects of strategic maneuvering in medical consultations
109
6.3Strategic maneuvering in the various stages of the argumentative
process
111
6.4Argumentative strategies in medical consultations
116
6.5Fallacies as derailments of strategic maneuvering
120
Essentials
124
Further readings
125
Exercises
126
Epilogue
131
Terminology
135
Overview of rules and fallacies
139
Members Advisory board
145
About the authors
149
References
151
Index
153
