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Illness as Metaphorby Sontag, Susan
DescriptionNew York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978.. Cloth, 8vo, 88 pages. First edition. Very good condition, in very good dust jacket.. ISBN: 0374174431. F. Hardcover. Book summaryThis influential essay tackles the uncomfortable subject of disease, and specifically the metaphors we use to try to come to terms with it. Dealing with tuberculosis, syphilis, and cancer, Sontag makes a case for the necessity of metaphor as both a distancing ploy and a way to understanding. However, as a cancer sufferer herself (a disease from which she died in 2004), she also points out that such myth-making can be destructive for the victims of disease--that views of cancer as a curse, or a punishment, or a war (i.e. patients "battling" cancer), rather than as a disease that is often, in fact, curable, may actually stand in the way of effective treatment. Similar books from this booksellerFrom this bookseller's general nonfiction catalog.
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