Metaphor:DISEASE TREATMENT IS WAR

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Name Gloss DISEASE TREATMENT IS WAR
Name Transcription
Aliases

TREATING DISEASE IS WAGING WAR

Description
Metaphor Level General
Metaphor Type Composed/complex
Experiential Basis
Source Frame War
Roles:battlefield, enemy_attack, generals, army, enemy_combatants, weapons, war_strategies, civilians, victory, enemy_conquest, fighting, side1, side2
Target Frame Disease treatment
Roles:disease, doctors, medical_professionals, diseased_cells, healthy_cells, body, treatment_strategies, cure, spread_of_disease, medical_tools_and_medicine


Mappings:

diseased_cells <= enemy_combatants
medical_professionals <= army
doctors <= generals
body <= battlefield
medical_tools_and_medicines <= weapons
treatment_strategy <= war_strategy
applying_treatment <= fighting

Related Metaphors:


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Examples:

Example Text: The doctors at the CDC led the way to victory against the flu epidemic.
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Example Text: The cancer patient fought a long, hard, battle, but she eventually succumbed to her disease.
Transcription:
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Provenance:
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Example Text: A Triumph in the War Against Cancer
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/A-Victory-in-the-War-Against-Cancer.html
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Example Text: With nothing left in their leukemia-fighting arsenal, the doctors were down to Dilaudid, a derivative of morphine...
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/A-Victory-in-the-War-Against-Cancer.html
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Graph of related metaphors:

digraph meta4tggrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Cancer treatment" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Cancer_treatment" fontsize="10.0" ]; n2 [label="Disease treatment" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Disease_treatment" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];

n1 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n3 [label="Disease" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Disease" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n3 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n4 [label="Treating a physical affliction" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Treating_a_physical_affliction" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n4 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }

digraph meta4graph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="ADDRESSING SOCIAL PROBLEMS IS WAGING WAR" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:ADDRESSING_SOCIAL_PROBLEMS_IS_WAGING_WAR" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"]; n2 [label="DISEASE TREATMENT IS WAR" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:DISEASE_TREATMENT_IS_WAR" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];

n1 -> n2 [label = "has as transitive subpart 1" fontsize="8.0" color="purple" ]; n3 [label="CANCER TREATMENT IS WAR" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:CANCER_TREATMENT_IS_WAR" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];

n3 -> n2 [label = "is a target subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }

digraph meta4srcgrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="War" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:War" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ]; n2 [label="Physical competition" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Physical_competition" fontsize="10.0" ];

n1 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n3 [label="Physical combat" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Physical_combat" fontsize="10.0" ];

n1 -> n3 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }

ExampleEnglish (The doctors at the CDC led the way to victory against the flu epidemic., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) +, English (The cancer patient fought a long, hard, battle, but she eventually succumbed to her disease., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) +, English (A Triumph in the War Against Cancer, ?, ?, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/A-Victory-in-the-War-Against-Cancer.html, ?, ?, ?) + and English (With nothing left in their leukemia-fighting arsenal, the doctors were down to Dilaudid, a derivative of morphine..., ?, ?, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/A-Victory-in-the-War-Against-Cancer.html, ?, ?, ?) +
Has source frameFrame:War +
Has target frameFrame:Disease treatment +
Mappingdiseased_cells (enemy_combatants, ?) +, medical_professionals (army, ?) +, doctors (generals, ?) +, body (battlefield, ?) +, medical_tools_and_medicines (weapons, ?) +, treatment_strategy (war_strategy, ?) + and applying_treatment (fighting, ?) +
Metaphor.AliasTREATING DISEASE IS WAGING WAR (?) +
Metaphor.LevelGeneral +
Metaphor.Source frameFrame:War +
Metaphor.Target frameFrame:Disease treatment +
Metaphor.TypeComposed/complex +
Has subobject
"Has subobject" is a predefined property representing a container construct that allows to accumulate property-value assignments similar to that of a normal wiki page.
Metaphor:DISEASE TREATMENT IS WAR#Is_example_of +