Medicine

Roles: patient, healer, diagnosis, symptom, treatment, cure, disease, recovery, relapse

The practice of diagnosing, treating, and curing illness in a living body. As a source domain, medicine provides a rich causal structure: symptoms indicate underlying conditions, diagnosis precedes treatment, treatment aims at cure or management, and recovery is never guaranteed. The frame is especially productive for abstract targets (relationships, economies, societies) because it implies that problems have identifiable causes and that expert intervention can restore health.

As Source Frame (1)