The fight is on: Military metaphors for cancer may harm patients

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 349, Issue , 2014, Pages

  McCartney, Margaret ^a  

^a Glasgow   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CANCER RESEARCH; FEAR; HEALTH PROMOTION; MILITARY METAPHOR; MILITARY PHENOMENA; MORALITY; NEOPLASM; NOTE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; SOCIAL MEDIA; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HUMAN; LITERATURE; NOMENCLATURE; PSYCHOLOGY; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HUMANS; METAPHOR; NEOPLASMS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; WAR;

EID: 84907563978     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g5155     Document Type: Note

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