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This paper provides a deconstructive reading of an education booklet aimed at patients who may be scheduled for permanent cardiac pacemakers, and argues that pacemaker implantation is being constructed as a routine, uncomplicated procedure. The way language and image in the booklet convey a dominant preferred perspective on pacemaker implantation will be questioned. Some of the major issues explored...
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