Military Metaphors and Their Contribution to the Problems of Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment in the “War” Against Cancer

American Journal of Bioethics 16 (10):19-21 (2016)
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Metaphors we live by.George Lakoff & Mark Johnson - 1980 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Mark Johnson.
Metaphors We Live By.George Lakoff & Mark Johnson - 1980 - Ethics 93 (3):619-621.
Metaphors We Live by.Max Black - 1980 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 40 (2):208-210.

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