Somatic metaphor: A clinical phenomenon pointing to a new model of disease, personhood, and physical reality

Advances in Mind-Body Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 16-29

  Broom, Brian ^a  

^a Inst for Integrative Hlth Studies   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PREDNISONE;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MODEL; ECZEMA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERSONHOOD; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATIZATION; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERRUCA VULGARIS; VULVA DISEASE; VULVODYNIA;

HUMANS; METAPHOR; MIND-BODY RELATIONS (METAPHYSICS); PERSONHOOD; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SEMANTICS; SICK ROLE; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 0036769438     PISSN: 07419783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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