Alanna Mitchell Quotes
The Predominant Cancer Metaphor Is War. We Fight Cancer, Usually Valiantly. We Attack Tumors And Try To Annihilate Them And Bring Out Our Arsenals To Do That, And So On. It's Us Against Cancer. This Metaphor Has Come In For Its Share Of Criticism Within The Ethical, Psychological And Even Oncological Disciplines. A Main Concern Is That When Someone Dies Of Cancer, The Message That Remains Is That That Person Just Hasn't Fought Hard Enough, Was Not A Brave Enough Soldier Against The Ultimate Foe, Did Not Really Want To Win.
The Cancer-is-war Metaphor Does Not Seem To Allow Space For The Idea That In Actual War, Some Soldiers Die Heroically For The Larger Good, No Matter Which Side Wins. War Is Death. In The Cancer War, If You Die, You've Lost And Cancer Has Won. The Dead Are Responsible Not Just For Getting Cancer, But Also For Failing To Defeat It.
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