| Autor: |
Chopra AK, Doody GA, Chopra, Arun K, Doody, Gillian A |
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Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine; Sep2007, Vol. 100 Issue 9, p423-426, 4p |
| Abstrakt: |
Objective: To determine whether schizophrenia is a commonly used 'illness as metaphor', to compare the use of schizophrenia and cancer as illnesses as metaphor, and to determine if there is a difference in such usage between the UK and USA.Design: An examination of articles published in the British press.Setting: 600 articles from six British newspapers: the Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the Mirror, the Sun and the Daily Mail.Main Outcome Measures: Use of schizophrenia and cancer as metaphors.Results: Schizophrenia was more likely to be metaphorized than cancer (P<0.001) in the UK press, but was less likely to be used as metaphor in the UK press than in the US press (P<0.001). 11% of articles containing the term schizophrenia used the word as a metaphor.Conclusions: Clinicians need to be aware that patients, carers and the public might have a different understanding of the word we use as a diagnosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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