Beyond the military metaphor

Military metaphors shape the limits and possibilities for conceptualising and responding to complex challenges of contagion. Although they are effective at communicating risk and urgency and at mobilising resources, military metaphors collapse diverse interests and communities into ‘fronts’, obscure...

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Main Author: Iona Francesca Walker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh Library 2020-09-01
Series:Medicine Anthropology Theory
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Online Access:http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/5026