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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 1995 Oct 1995

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 1995

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 1995 Jul 1995

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 1995

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 1995 Apr 1995

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 1995

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 1995 Jan 1995

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 1995

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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Reframing The Debate On Health Care Reform By Replacing Our Metaphors, George J. Annas Jan 1995

Reframing The Debate On Health Care Reform By Replacing Our Metaphors, George J. Annas

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Metaphors matter, as our sterile debate on the fi-nancing of health insurance demonstrates so well. In that debate the traditional metaphor of American medicine, the military metaphor, was displaced by the market metaphor in public discourse. Metaphors, which entice us to understand and experience “one kind of thing in terms of another . . . play a central role in the construction of social and political reality.” The market metaphor proved virtually irresistible in the public arena and led Congress to defer to market forces to “reform” the financing of health insurance in the United States.

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