This article adresses the question of communication between patient and physician. Specifically we investigated the therapeutic implications of the patient-physician relation, especially when carring for cancer patients. The objective of "personalized medicine" is replaced with that of "precision medicine" or "personalized therapy" in which the emphasis on disease and therapy crowds out the patient's lived experience of the disease. In the second part, the discussion shifts to the question of language, taking both everyday and specialized language into account as forms of speech reflecting social and cultural attitudes to medicine and disease. Specifically, we will look at some metaphorical representations of cancer.
Grammatica e metafore in medicina
Maria Paola Zamagni
2017
Abstract
This article adresses the question of communication between patient and physician. Specifically we investigated the therapeutic implications of the patient-physician relation, especially when carring for cancer patients. The objective of "personalized medicine" is replaced with that of "precision medicine" or "personalized therapy" in which the emphasis on disease and therapy crowds out the patient's lived experience of the disease. In the second part, the discussion shifts to the question of language, taking both everyday and specialized language into account as forms of speech reflecting social and cultural attitudes to medicine and disease. Specifically, we will look at some metaphorical representations of cancer.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
