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work_pad4vsuqz5hxhphrssqjrk3s5e	Alan Bleakley	Force and Presence in the World of Medicine	2017	8	.pdf	application/pdf	5009	299	58	has been shaped historically by the combative metaphor of a 'war against disease', turning medicine The two metaphors align medicine with the modern industrial–military complex that is masculine, Keywords: force; presence; medical metaphors I am, then, following Wallace Stevens' poetic imagination in suggesting that Force and Presence framing metaphors flow down to shape one complex system in our lives—medicine: medical culture, historical conditions of possibility for the emergence of Force as a dominant discourse and metaphorical The 'body as machine' and 'medicine as war' metaphors were aligned to produce a powerful The use of an ecological and pacific metaphor complex may shift medicine's primary concern with This shift—from the linear and brutal 'body as machine' and 'medicine as war' dominant metaphors metaphors, as the dominance of 'Force' over 'Presence'. progressive medicine to gain traction, new shaping metaphors must emerge. Alternative Metaphors to Medicine as War Alternative Metaphors to Medicine as War 	./cache/work_pad4vsuqz5hxhphrssqjrk3s5e.pdf	./txt/work_pad4vsuqz5hxhphrssqjrk3s5e.txt