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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

By Susan Sontag

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors Medicine

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

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Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor in 1978, while suffering from breast cancer herself. In her study she reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is - a disease; not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment, and highly curable, if good treatment is found early enough. Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote Aids and Its Metaphors, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
192
Release Date:
2009-07-03
Publication Date:
2009-07-03
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0141187123
ISBN13:
9780141187129
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
151 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
200 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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