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- Title Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
- Author Susan Sontag
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Picador USA, New York
- Date 2001-08-25
- ISBN 9780312420130 / 0312420137
- Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Dimensions 8.34 x 5.58 x 0.53 in (21.18 x 14.17 x 1.35 cm)
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- Topical: AIDS
- Library of Congress subjects Metaphor, AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.461
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New York: Picador; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989. 183 pages; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as 'one of the most liberating books of its time.' A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of 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, she argues, is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment and, it is highly curable, if good treatment is followed. Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote a sequel to Illness as Metaphor, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic. These two essays now published together, Illness as…
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