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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors



Author: Susan Sontag
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Picador
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0312420137



Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors


In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time. Medical books Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. 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 a 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 Medical books Illness As Metaphor And AIDS And Its Metaphors And, ..., 9780312420130. Illness As Metaphor And AIDS And Its Metaphors And, AIDS And Its Metaphors, ISBN-13: 9780312420130, ISBN-10: 0312420137

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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Illness as Metaphor and Aids and Its Metaphors, ISBN-13: 9780312420130, ISBN-10: 0312420137



Medical Book Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors



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 a 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 Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, have been translated into many languages and continue to have an enormous influence on the thinking of medical professionals and, above all, on the lives of many thousands of patients and caregivers.


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