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By comparison, another common metaphor, comparing cancer to a "journey" was "less likely to lead to feelings of guilt or failure". [10] In a study conducted in 2003 stated that patients using war-related terminology to describe their breast cancer had higher rates of depression and "poorer quality of life ".
AIDS and Its Metaphors is a 1989 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag. In this companion book to her Illness as Metaphor (1978), Sontag extends her arguments about the metaphors attributed to cancer to the AIDS crisis. Sontag explores how attitudes to disease are formed in society, and attempts to deconstruct them.
She does not mention her personal experience with cancer in the work, but she addresses it in her related 1988 work, AIDS and Its Metaphors. At the time that Sontag was writing, the fad in alternative cancer treatment was psychotherapy for the patient's supposed "cancer personality". According to these proponents, patients brought cancer upon ...
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The rhetoric of health and medicine is tied to the emergence of rhetoric of science in the early 1970s and 1980s. [10] Contemporary theorists such as Kenneth Burke, Michel Foucault, Thomas Kuhn, Bruno Latour, and Steve Woolgar laid the theoretical groundwork for this early interest in the persuasive dimensions of scientific language.
The Tidal Model uses the metaphor of water and describes how people in distress can become emotionally, physically and spiritually shipwrecked. [1] It sees the experience of health and illness as a fluid, rather than a stable phenomenon , and life as a journey undertaken on an ocean of experience .
Surfing the Healthcare Tsunami used the scene from the September 15, 1952, episode of I Love Lucy, "Job Switching", as a metaphor for how systems can cause well-meaning and competent caregivers to make errors. In the scene, Lucy and Ethel attempt to keep up with an unmanageable pace of chocolates coming off of an assembly line.