Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Publication Title
Technical Communication Quarterly
First Page
239
Last Page
273
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2011.578237
Abstract
In the field that investigates infectious brain diseases such as mad cow disease, the verbal and visual packaging of scientific visuals associated with identifying the agent, prion, its processes, and structure served the community ritual of establishing belief in a highly unorthodox phenomenon. Visual promotion fed into cultural expectations of single agents and simple processes, even though the actual agency and disease process have proven highly complex and perhaps unknowable.
Rights
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Technical Communication Quarterly on 6-10-2011, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10572252.2011.578237.
Recommended Citation
Reeves, Carol, "Visual Rhetoric and the Promotion of Scientific Ideas: The Strange Case of the Prion" Technical Communication Quarterly / (2011): 239-273.
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