The role of metaphor in culture, consciousness, and medicine: A preliminary inquiry into the metaphors of depression in Chinese and Western medical and common languages

Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-28

  Pritzker, Sonya ^a  

^a NONE

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ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CHINA; CHINESE MEDICINE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037534082     PISSN: 14611449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1461-1449(02)00013-0     Document Type: Article

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