Military Metaphors in Health Care: Who Are We Actually Trying to Help?

Tate, Tyler; Pearlman, Robert A.

doi:10.1080/15265161.2016.1214320

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“…The metaphor described represented the human body as being at war in order to make HIV and AIDS messages personal and real. Studies have shown that metaphors that use war symbolisms privilege the male gender (Nie et al 2016;Tate and Pearlman 2016;Chambers 2016). However, in our study, we found that the metaphors resonated with the sociocultural conceptions of the masculine body.…”

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Embodying HIV and AIDS Information: Experiences of Serodiscordant Couples

Wella¹,

Webber²

2018

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This paper aims to illuminate how serodiscordant couples were informed by their own and other's bodies in their experience of HIV/ AIDS information. The lived body is the contact we have with the world. Our knowledge about others is through their bodies. In addition, illness is experienced first through the lived body. Therefore, when doctors want to learn about the illness, they extract information from the lived body. In this study, we investigated how serodiscordant couples experience HIV and AIDS information in Malawi. In-depth interviews were conducted in the homes of twenty-one serodiscordant couples and three individuals who had separated from their partners. Participants for the study were selected purposively. Data analysis was carried out using Max van Manen's phenomenological approach to generate descriptions and interpretations of the couples' experiences of HIV and AIDS information. The study found that the life-world is the overarching context of experiencing HIV and AIDS information and identified five structures of the life-world of serodiscordant couples: lived body, lived space, lived others, lived time, and spirituality. HIV and AIDS are first experienced through the lived body, and bodies were informational within the lived spaces. Thus, this research contributes to the study of HIV and AIDS information by revealing the lived body as an important source. It also identifies that the body can be an ambiguous source, since HIV and AIDS information available from the lived body may be ignored or misinterpreted by the serodiscordant couples and by those they interact with.

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Embodying HIV and AIDS Information: Experiences of Serodiscordant Couples

Wella¹,

Webber²

2018

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“…106 Tyler Tate and Robert Pearlman, both self-described practising clinicians, for example, argue that military metaphors can trigger a sense of strength and determination, a sense which can ultimately empower patients. 107 The use of military metaphors can also, as Mutch argues, 'present a picture of organizations as subject to command and control, with strict hierarchies', 108 and this helps of course to potentially reassure a frightened population. As Hülsse and Spencer point out with respect to 'terror', the use of military and war metaphors by the West following 9/11 had the effect of positioning Al-Qaeda 'as a type of actor the West is quite familiar with, a rational-bureaucratic military organization'.…”

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Ventilators, missiles, doctors, troops … the justification of legislative responses to COVID-19 through military metaphors

Gillis

2020

Law and Humanities

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This article examines the legislative measures imposed by governments as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and scrutinizes, in particular, governments' extensive use of military metaphors to justify those measures. It argues that while the use of military metaphors can usefully and desirably function to mobilize widespread acceptance and compliance with the relevant legislative measures and to motivate action, the use of metaphors in this way should nonetheless be viewed with caution. Metaphors of war and associated images are emotionally powerful and can function in a way that makes it difficult to question governmental responses and responsibility.

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“…Metaphors drawn from a military context are often used in health care (see Fuks, 2009, p. 58; Hodgkin, 1985; Mongoven, 2006, p. 404; Nie, et al., 2016a, p. 3; Tate & Pearlman, 2016). This is particularly the case in the context of a medical intervention for a disease (Chiang & Duann, 2007, p. 581).…”

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The principle of salvage in the context of COVID‐19

Kearns

2020

Nursing Inquiry

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The prioritisation of scarce resources has a particular urgency within the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic crisis. This paper sets out a hypothetical case of Patient X (who is a nurse) and Patient Y (who is a non‐health care worker). They are both in need of a ventilator due to COVID‐19 with the same clinical situation and expected outcomes. However, there is only one ventilator available. In addressing the question of who should get priority, the proposal is made that the answer may lie in how the pandemic is metaphorically described using military terms. If nursing is understood to take place at the ‘frontline’ in the ‘battle’ against COVID‐19, a principle of military medical ethics—namely the principle of salvage—can offer guidance on how to prioritise access to a life‐saving resource in such a situation. This principle of salvage purports a moral direction to return wounded soldiers back to duty on the battlefield. Applying this principle to the hypothetical case, this paper proposes that Patient X (who is a nurse) should get priority of access to the ventilator so that he/she can return to the ‘frontline’ in the fight against COVID‐19.

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Military Metaphors in Health Care: Who Are We Actually Trying to Help?

Cited by 16 publications

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Embodying HIV and AIDS Information: Experiences of Serodiscordant Couples

Embodying HIV and AIDS Information: Experiences of Serodiscordant Couples

Ventilators, missiles, doctors, troops … the justification of legislative responses to COVID-19 through military metaphors

The principle of salvage in the context of COVID‐19

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