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1st Edition

Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine The State of the Art

By Alan Bleakley Copyright 2017

270 Pages

by Routledge

270 Pages

by Routledge

270 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

While medical language is soaked in metaphor, and thinking with metaphor is central to diagnostic work, medicine – that is, medical culture, clinical practice and medical education – outwardly rejects metaphor for objective, literal scientific language. This thought-provoking book argues that this is a misstep, and critically considers what embracing the use of metaphors and similes might mean... Read more

Table of Contents

Forewords

Shane Neilson: Carrying the Day: Medical Metaphors as Disciplinary Self-Improvement Instruments

Jeffery Donaldson: The patient poem

Preface: forewarned

Chapter 1: The recovery of metaphor in medicine

Chapter 2: Metaphors, once down and out, make a comeback

Chapter 3: What do we know about metaphors in medicine and what are the consequences of resisting metaphor?

Chapter 4: ‘Medicine as war’ and other didactic metaphors

Chapter 5: Medical metaphors as resemblances: putting aesthetics to work

Chapter 6: Functions of resemblances in medicine: ‘food for thought’

Chapter 7: Metaphors in psychiatry: the embodied mind at its limits

Chapter 8: Metaphors in medical education: the pedagogic imagination

Chapter 9: Poetry, metaphor and the medical imagination

Chapter 10: ‘Thinking with metaphors in medicine: the state of the art’ part I: the odyssey

Chapter 11: ‘Thinking with metaphors in medicine: the state of the art’ part II: the tournament joust

Summary

Conclusion

Author(s)

Biography

Alan Bleakley is Emeritus Professor at the University of Plymouth’s Peninsula School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK.

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