Metaphors and models in medicine

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 361-375

  Pickering, Neil ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Imagination; Likeness; Medical science; Medical scientist; Metaphor; Model; Pasteur; Poet; Poetry; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICINE; MODEL; PHILOSOPHY;

HUMANS; METAPHOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; POETRY; VACCINATION;

EID: 0032856420     PISSN: 13867415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005403411725     Document Type: Article

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