Issues in Medical Writing
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/hu_dept/tc@mtu/papers/medical.htm

Taaffe, Maura
Michigan Tech University
1998

Abstract:

There is no doubt that medical communications is a very young field. The clearest picture of the issues, problems, and needs of a discourse community with as complex a membership as that of medical communicators comes from the AMWA materials. Drawing boundaries between academic vs. medical professional vs. medical communicator seems pointless because of the nature of the medical communication. It also seems to be an area ripe for study by those interested in power issues in rhetoric and certainly in research in communication systems. Medical communication really is both the most and least specialized area of technical communication.