Metaphors as time capsules: Their uses in the biosciences and the media

Communicating Biological Sciences: Ethical and Metaphorical Dimensions

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 185-200

  Hellsten, Iina ^a  

^a ATHENA INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

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