Keyword

metaphor

2 Publications

24. June 2019 | DOI: 10.17160/josha.6.6.572

The Principles of Cancer: A Metaphor of Life?

Roland Mertelsmann, Alexandros Spyridonidis

Albert-Ludwigs Universität

While cancer is a complex disease with a multitude of clinical presentations, a few principles can be discerned. Cancer is old; it existed already in the earliest multicellular organisms. Cancer…

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Between the Lines: The Language and Art of Death

Stephanie Lim, Jeremiah de Leon

Department of Medical Oncology, Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centre

This short paper reflects on the attitudes that modern society has towards death, which affect and form the language that we use to describe death. The key domains of concern…

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