Medicine Is War: The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture by Lorenzo Servitje

Medicine Is War: The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture

SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Lorenzo Servitje

330 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics health history literary
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Medicine is most often understood through the metaphor of war. We encounter phrases such as "the war against the coronavirus," "the front lines of the Ebola crisis," "a new weapon against antibiotic resistance," or "the immune system fights cancer...

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