![[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.](/assets/img/quote-photos/military-metaphors-have-more-and-more-come-to-infuse-all-aspects-of-the-descrip.jpg)
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