Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Forewords; Preface: forewarned; Acknowledgements; 1 The recovery of metaphor in medicine; 2 Metaphors, once down and out, make a comeback; 3 What do we know about metaphors in medicine and what are the consequences of resisting metaphor?; 4 'Medicine as war' and other didactic metaphors; 5 Medical metaphors as resemblances: putting aesthetics to work; 6 Functions of resemblances in medicine: 'food for thought'; 7 Metaphors in psychiatry: the embodied mind at its limits.
8 Metaphors in medical education: the pedagogic imagination9 Poetry, metaphor and the medical imagination; 10 'Thinking with metaphors in medicine: the state of the art': Part I: the odyssey; 11 'Thinking with metaphors in medicine: the state of the art': Part II: the tournament joust; Summary; Conclusion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Bibliography; Index.
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Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine : The State of the Art.
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Interprofessional relations.
Medical education.
Physician and patient.
Physician-Patient Relations.
Education, Medical.
Interprofessional Relations.
Language.
Metaphor.
Physician-Patient Relations.
HEALTH & FITNESS-- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS-- Reference.
Interprofessional relations.
MEDICAL-- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL-- Atlases.
Medical education.
MEDICAL-- Essays.
MEDICAL-- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL-- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL-- Osteopathy.
Physician and patient.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.