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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

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Susan Sontag presents the true significance of disease as it has affected cultures throughout the centuries.

In 1978 Sontag wrote Illness As Metaphor. A cancer patient herself at the time, she shows how 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 - just a disease. Cancer is 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, stigmatised disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote Aids and Its Metaphors, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
3 July 2009
Pages
192
ISBN
9780141187129

Susan Sontag presents the true significance of disease as it has affected cultures throughout the centuries.

In 1978 Sontag wrote Illness As Metaphor. A cancer patient herself at the time, she shows how 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 - just a disease. Cancer is 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, stigmatised disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote Aids and Its Metaphors, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
3 July 2009
Pages
192
ISBN
9780141187129