It Is Time to Cancel Medicine’s Social Contract Metaphor
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It Is Time to Cancel Medicine's Social Contract Metaphor.
There is agreement that the complex relationship between medicine and society is best described as a metaphorical social contract and that professionalism is the medical profession's contribution to this contract. Metaphors can help clarify abstract concepts, but they can also be abused if the counterfactual attributes of a metaphor become attributed to its subject. This seems to be happening w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000001566