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The use of war and battle metaphors in medicine has been documented back to the 1600s. [4] Over the 20th century, politicians have "declared war" on cancer, diabetes, AIDS, and obesity. [4] Military metaphors are not an exclusively Western phenomenon. Battle terms are also used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Illness as Metaphor served as a way for Susan Sontag to express her opinions on the use of metaphors in order to refer to illnesses, with her main focuses being tuberculosis and cancer. The book contrasts the viewpoints and metaphors associated with each disease.
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.
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Spoons are used as a metaphor and visual representation for energy rationing. Spoon theory is a metaphor describing the amount of physical or mental energy that a person has available for daily activities and tasks, and how it can become limited. The term was coined in a 2003 essay by American writer Christine Miserandino.
Kate Middleton announced today she is finished with her chemotherapy treatment and cancer free, sharing the news in a three minute long video (watch above) filmed in Norfolk last month. "Despite ...
As CEO of Envita Medical Centers in Scottsdale, Prato’s focus is delivering "personalized, integrated medicine" to cancer patients, as well as taking steps to prevent the widespread disease.
The war on cancer began with the National Cancer Act of 1971, a United States federal law. [9] The act was intended "to amend the Public Health Service Act so as to strengthen the National Cancer Institute in order to more effectively carry out the national effort against cancer". [1]