Postmodern Rhetorics of Technology: The Montreal Fluoridation Controversy

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Authors and Corporations: Charland, Maurice
In: Canadian Journal of Communication, 17, 1992, 2
published:
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Media Type: Article, E-Article

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ISSN: 0705-3657
1499-6642
DOI: 10.22230/cjc.1992v17n2a660
published in: Canadian Journal of Communication
Language: English
Subjects:
Communication
Collection: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (CrossRef)
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<jats:p> Montreal’s recent controversy over water fluoridation illustrates the challenge to deliberative rhetoric within postmodernity. The dispute ultimately turns on the claim to knowledge of public health officials. No non-controversial meta-narrative stands to legitimate their character and claims. Rhetorical discourse performs the impossible task of rendering the incommensurable to the court of judgment. </jats:p>