What do you think of when you hear the word metaphor? Do you think of english class? Or how we use them in everyday life? What about how metaphors have a role in how we experience sickness and pursue our health? Whether we know it or not, metaphors are used every single day in the … [Read more…]
“The Trouble with Medicine’s Metaphors” by Dhruv Khullar is basically saying that metaphors are used frequently by doctors and by people who help people with illness and disease. These people tell patients to “fight” their way through the illness but no one knows how the patients are thinking. Will telling them to “fight” make them … [Read more…]
After reading the article a second time I didn’t notice anything brand new, but reading it over again helped clarify my first annotations. A lot of my annotations were me trying to clarify what the paragraph was saying but when I read it over again I feel like I got the wrong idea for some … [Read more…]
One part in Erard’s article that sparked my interest was when he was talking about the “upstairs brain” and the “downstairs brain.” It made sense how the person thought by telling his son to use his “upstairs brain” would make him want to behave well and have a good social life. The “downstairs brain” works … [Read more…]
