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September 21, 2016The American Journal of Bioethics

Military Metaphors and Their Contribution to the Problems of Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment in the “War” Against Cancer

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Military metaphors have a long history within biomedical discourse. Pasteur used them as a way to explain the germ theory of disease. President Nixon declared “war” on cancer in the National Cancer...

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Heidi Malm (2016) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6ac3559785add836675c5d47 https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2016.1214331

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