Thinking with metaphors in medicine : the state of the art / Alan Bleakley.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

xviii, 250 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm.

The recovery of metaphor in medicine -- Metaphors, once down and out, make a comeback -- What do we know about metaphors in medicine and what are the consequences of resisting metaphor? -- "Medicine as war" and other didactic metaphors -- Medical metaphors as resemblances : putting aesthetics to work -- Functions of resemblances in medicine : "food for thought" -- Metaphors in psychiatry : the embodied mind at its limits -- Metaphors in medical education : the pedagogic imagination -- Poetry, metaphor and the medical imagination -- Thinking with metaphors in medicine : the state of the art, part I : the odyssey -- Thinking with metaphors in medicine : the state of the art, part II : the tournament joust.

Includes bibliographical references and index.