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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Forewords -- Preface: forewarned -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The recovery

While medical language is soaked in metaphor, and thinking with metaphor is central to diagnostic work, medicine – that is, medical culture, clinical practice

This book claims that metaphors must be seen as indispensable cognitive and communicative instruments in medical science. Analysis of texts taken from recently

Medicine is most often understood through the metaphor of war. We encounter phrases such as "the war against the coronavirus," "the front lines of the Ebola cri