Oderwald Arko K
Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum, afd. Metamedica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2011;155(45):A4178.
Metaphors of cancer were once rejected by Susan Sontag, because their existence slandered the patient. There are a number of very common metaphors about cancer and the question raised is as to whether forbidding metaphors is solving the problem Susan Sontag put to the fore. We conclude that getting rid of metaphors also makes it impossible for patients to use metaphors to feel better.
癌症的隐喻曾遭到苏珊·桑塔格的驳斥，因为它们的存在诋毁了患者。关于癌症有许多非常常见的隐喻，由此引发的问题是，禁止隐喻是否能解决苏珊·桑塔格提出的问题。我们的结论是，摒弃隐喻也会使患者无法借助隐喻来感觉好受一些。
