Images of cancer: metaphors in the literature
Oderwald, A.K.
Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Geneeskunde 155(45): A4178
2011
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-2162 PMID: 22085582 Document Number: 651442
Metaphors of cancer were once rejected by Susan Sontag, because their existence slandered the patient. There are a number of very common metaphors about cancer and the question raised is as to whether forbidding metaphors is solving the problem Susan Sontag put to the fore. We conclude that getting rid of metaphors also makes it impossible for patients to use metaphors to feel better.